Being the first black woman member of Congress would have been enough to make history, but for Shirley Chisholm it wasnt enough. Three years after her election, she would also become the first woman to ever run for the presidency of the Democratic party. When she announced her intention 50 years a
He was born on February 2, 1882. Ulysses, his greatest work and one of the most iconic books in history, was published on February 2, 1922 in Paris, James Joyces 40th birthday. The events of Ulysses unfold on June 16, 1904, the day Joyce first went on a date with Nora Barnacle, the woman of his li
We dont know if Dusan Ivkovic after all he breathed his last because, as Dusko Vujosevic said, his lungs were infected by the pigeons, which he loved and cared for so much his whole life. But we know that this passion of his, something like a sacred hobby, accompanied him in the company of basketba
The Naval Battle of Salamis is known to all of us and is one of the most famous examples of the military exploitation of the wind. In all the explorations or campaigns of the peoples, the weather factor and especially the wind was sometimes an ally and sometimes an enemy. Those who knew the weather
September 27th does not hold the place it should have in the national collective memory. In fact, few remember what happened then 80 years ago. And yet, the establishment of the National Liberation Front, EAM, constitutes a pivotal moment in the modern history of the country. The EAM, a Front formed
This time Muhammad Ali entered the ring with the confidence of a world champion. It was the third and last fight he would fight with Ken Norton, the boxer he had derogatorily called an amateur three years before, a description that would eventually cost him a surprise defeat, but mostly with a broke
The former President of the Republic and Honorary Professor of the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos spoke on the topic The Message of Salamis for the defense of Greek and European Culture at the event of the Municipality of Salamis and the
Rockefeller Center needed only a few months to complete, the 70 floors had raised, and the imposing new skyscraper was already casting its shadow heavily over Manhattan. And yet, for the well-known millionaire family, this was not enough. They needed something to speak to the heart of the average Am
“England had to choose between dishonor and war. He preferred dishonor and he will have war. If, of the dozens of sayings attributed to Winston Churchill, you discard half of them as corny or exaggerated, and keep from the rest only those that actually have something to say, then the above quote de
The former President of the Republic and Honorary Professor of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos, spoke, on the topic of The eternal radiation of Greek Culture, announcing, online, the opening of the 4th Panhellenic Conference on the Digitization of Cultur
On Winston Churchills first day as Prime Minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. It was preceded by Poland and Czechoslovakia. Over the next twelve months, German bombers would pound the country relentlessly, killing 45,000 Britons and destroying two million homes. In The Days That Made Hist
Captives of Geography, Raising Walls, For a Flag. Tim Marshall has already been loved by the Greek public with his inventive and popularized historical recording, and now he comes to give us one more of his work, which is again published by Dioptra publications. In his new book, The Power of Geogra
A conference on the management of the housing stock of Nice is organized by the local Municipality on Wednesday at 18:00. The built landscape of Nice is inextricably linked to the residential settlement of Asia Minor refugees in the area, through state mechanisms and self-housing tactics. Many of
In the execution of Anwar Sadat one finds all the right reasons needed to make a political assassination stand out from all the others that have occurred since the beginning of history - and which it is doubtful will ever stop. Its not just who you kill, after all if history has taught us anything i
What were the processes that prevailed in the intellectual circles of Greek scholars in the years before the outbreak of the Revolution of 1821 but also during its duration? Two publications that talk to each other as a complement to each other, were released in mid-September, to shed light on less
The face of Ernesto Guevara de la Serna maintains an undeniable glamor in history. 54 years after his death, Che remains the Christ of the rebellion, but also the dominant background against which the ruling class and the proletariat clashed. Che was the personification of the rupture, the conflict,
If you look through the Associated Press archives, youll come across a photo that stops time. Depicts Leonhard Seppala and his legendary huskies on October 12, 1928, in Alaska. For those who have seen the 2019 film Togo, the footage may be familiar. In Ericson Cores film, Seppala is played by Will
October 18 was an important day anyway for Andreas Papandreou, as 37 years before his first electoral victory, on October 18, 1944, his father George Papandreou returned to free Greece forming a government, six days after the liberation of Athens from the Germans. Thus, the victory of Andreas Papan
An anonymous American collector bought the remains of Big John, the largest triceratops ever discovered by paleontologists, for 6.65 million euros at an auction in Paris on Thursday. Big John, named after the owner of the farm where his bones were found, roamed what is now South Dakota 66 million
During the 18th and 19th centuries a great deal of confusion had prevailed in the Western world regarding the question of masturbation. The Judeo-Christian tradition had condemned the process as a sinful offshoot of human nature while at the same time the Great Awakening a series of revolutions in t
Stefan Rowecki received reports from Witold about the killing of Soviet prisoners of war in gas chambers in the fall of 1941. The commander-in-chief of the ZWZ, like Witold, was not entirely sure what to do with them. He understood that the behavior of the Germans was certainly contrary to internati
On the news of this defeat, Augustus reportedly banged his head against the wall, shouting:Quintilius Varus, give up the legions!. There was panic in Rome. After all, an easy victory was expected - while 20,000 legionnaires died in agony, falling into a trap organized by a barbarian leader. The
Everyone has heard of the forbidden books index. But how did church censorship work in practice? How were official prohibitions implemented to protect innocent souls from sinful reading? The answers to these questions are not obvious even to historians. Thanks to Izabela Wienceks research, we at lea
The truth about the unnatural alliance between the USA and the USSR, against the Third Reich USA and USSR, protagonists of the Cold War, sworn enemies since the birth of the Soviet Union, the two exponents of two opposing, alternative and totally incompatible worldviews, and also, in the 40s, du