She came from an illustrious family, was educated and intelligent. And yet her mother was reluctant to marry her off. When she remembered about her, she chose the girl a simplistic, poor and influential candidate. A man who couldnt bring her neither happiness nor even respect. Zofia was the thir
Dirty, living in dark burrows, working like slaves. Drinking liters of alcohol, arranging fights, ending with sickles stuck in the heads. Joseph and Frances Gies tell about what the peasant existence really looked like in the book Life in a Medieval Village, which is an award in our competition.
Human shooting competition, millions of victims of mindless crime, thousands of hands cut off for disobedience. This was the everyday life of the 19th-century Congo. A country where impunity has turned people into monsters. The colonies conquered by Europeans were often characterized by a brutal
This is one of the bloodiest battles of antiquity and one of the greatest victories of Alexander the great. Moreover, modern commanders could envy the ingenuity of both warring sides. During the siege of Tire, engineering troops, amphibious ships and even combat divers were used! After the victo