We know Henry VIII mainly from the fact that he murdered his wives with passion. If it werent for him, there wouldnt be Anglicanism either. The (un) famous king, however, had one more, forgotten face. He was the employer with his worst nightmare. The English court in the 16th century was famous
Frankensteins monster, sewn together from fragments of human and animal bodies, was born in the head of an inconspicuous young woman. Where did Mary Shelley get her inspiration from? The most famous monster in history was born on a stormy night on June 16, 1816, when a group of friends began to
Dina Mikhailovna Szulkiewicz was sent to a labor camp in her childhood, and from there, after World War II, to a Soviet orphanage. Her identity was stripped away, she survived brutal treatment, gang rape and hard work in terrible conditions. There were more children like her. They took us from t
Streams of vodka, dancing until dawn and girls looking for celebrities in cramped, smoky bars ... Is this a picture from one of the modern pub districts of a big city? Not. It is a night in the Polish capital in the times of ... Stalin, Bierut, Gomułka and absolute poverty. In the difficult 1950