Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani or Lady with an ermine and detail of the necklace Cecilia Gallerani, the famous Lady with an Ermine portrayed by Leonardo da Vinci at the end of the 1400s (perhaps 1498), she can be taken as the model of a typical fashionable Milanese girl of the time. The g
The Aztecs did human sacrifice on a really huge scale. Each year they killed thousands of their enemies in honor of the deities. But why did they eat them afterwards? In this house there were many large pots, jars and jugs full of water in which they cooked the meat of the unfortunate Indians, w
1956 is the year that Great History re-entered the lives of ordinary people awakening enslaved minds and helping to overcome fear. Tragic in June and hopeful in October. Gloomy and sad like the fate of thousands of victims of Stalinism and colorful like jazz and the socks of the bikinis. Piotr B
It was enough for the Second World War to end, and the Western allies forgot overnight about Polish allies and our contribution to the victory over Nazi Germany. As always in such cases, the cold political calculation won. It was on its basis that the leaders of Great Britain and the United States d