This year marks the 400th anniversary of the attempted murder of King Sigismund III Vasa. It was the first attempt at regicide by the nobility in the history of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. What was the attack like and why did it happen? It was Sunday, November 15, 1620, around nine
Greek symposium. Prawns glazed with honey are mentioned by the poet Philoxenus of Kythera By the Greek poet Philoxenus of Kythera (435-380 BC) only a few fragments of two poems remain, Cyclops and Symposium, and it is in the second that he, in describing the not very frugal courses of a
Norma Shearer plays Marie Antoinette in the 1938 film of the same name In the video (from youtube.com) which I inserted at the bottom of the post you can see the final scene of the famous film of 1938 Marie Antoinette , that of the execution of the ex queen of France, played by No
On Sunday, August 13, 1944, shortly after 6 p.m., a monstrous explosion shook the Old Town. About three hundred people died - residents of Warsaw and soldiers. Over a hundred were injured. In national mythology, the tragedy is recorded as the explosion of a trap tank. Meanwhile, it was neither a tan