One hour after midnight on February 2-3, 1959, a four-seat Beechcraft Bonanza B35 took off in a heavy snowstorm from the airport in Mason City, Iowa, bound for Moorhead, Minnesota. Passengers - apart from the pilot - were three great rock and roll stars:Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. The Big B
On July 20, 1944, a group of Wehrmacht officers organized an attack on Adolf Hitler. It almost worked! How did German society react to the attempt to overthrow the dictator who dragged the country into a bloody war? Totally different than you might expect. In mid-1944 it was already clear that
Entrance to the Pompeii brothel If you visit Pompeii (its worth it, I assure you!), expect to queue to enter the brothel (the name derives from she-wolf, in the sense of prostitute):who knows why, the old meeting house of the unfortunate city, it is the place that more than any other arouses
During over a thousand years of history, Rome has fought countless wars. But only single chiefs were able to lead him to the brink of collapse. If they had succeeded, the history of the Roman Empire would have ended hundreds of years earlier. Or maybe even ... the Roman Empire would not have arisen