Each journey, whether in a library of the universe, according to Jorge Luis Borges, or in space and time, as it happens to most, offers self-knowledge to the traveler from the knowledge of others writes Thanos Veremis in his new book , emeritus professor of Political History at the University of Ath
She did not want to give up power during her husbands lifetime or after his death. There can be only one queen, said Jadwiga Kaliska openly. And even as a seventy-year-old woman, she was still shaking Polish politics. Władysław Łokietek was the head of the Polish state. But it was his wife Jadwi
On the wave of the discovery of a new element by Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her husband at the beginning of the 20th century, there was ... a fashion for radium. It was seen as a panacea. At the beginning of the 20th century, the world learned about radioactivity. In 1898 - just two years after An
The first Juventus team (1897-98), with a pink shirt and black tie It may seem strange, yet the Juventus jersey it has not always been in black and white stripes. In fact, when the football club was founded, back in 1897, the official uniform, the one with which the players took to the field,