Historian Roger Ekirch, after a series of fortuitous events, finds himself researching a topic that has perhaps never before been the subject of debate among his colleagues:how people slept in the Middle Ages and ancient times. And this because everyone thought they knew, that it is another human in
In Latin the word Lupa had two meanings. The wolf, literally, but also figuratively the whore. Thus, the wolverine dens of ancient Rome were the workplace of prostituted women. Pompeiis lair is one of the best-known and best-preserved buildings of the ruined city. Most of the women here were slaves
Also known as The Year Without a Summer, 1816 negatively affected the entire world, from the poorest rice farmer in China to the -perpetually in fear of starvation- residents of Ireland. In 1815, Mount Tambora erupted and its aftermath caused droughts, destroyed crops and most importantly, an endles
A six-year investigation by Dutch authorities into the treason of Anne Frank has identified a suspect in the treason and subsequent death of this girl, one of the most recognizable Jewish victims of the Holocaust, who kept her diary for 2 years. Her hiding place was betrayed to the Nazis by Jewish
Composer, lyricist, bouzouki master and singer; one of the most important figures of rebetiko and Greek folk music in general of the 20th century. Vassilis Tsitsanis was born in Trikala, Thessaly, on January 18, 1915. His parents were from Epirus and apart from Vassilis, they had four other childre
There are a bunch of historical figures who have gone spectacularly, with one small sub-category standing out in particular. Were talking about those who in one way or another made the macabre prophecy of when they would leave - or how they would leave - and fell in. People of literature, music an
The calendar showed January 24, 2012, when it became known that Thodoros Angelopoulos was no longer alive. That Tuesday afternoon, the Greek director had been carried away by a motorcycle on the Drapetsona ring road, while crossing the road, during one of the breaks in the filming of his new film, T
“The extinction of the species is the norm. Survival is the exception.” (Carl Sagan, American astronomer, 1934-1996) On Monday, January 24, 2022, 50 years have passed since January 24, 1972 (come on!). In the afternoon of that day, two fishermen on the banks of the Talofofo River on the island o
The term war crime may seem somewhat of an oxymoron at its core, but the need to establish such a protective legal framework becomes more understandable when we read history, and in particular, when we read about horrific massacres that took place in the past. Perhaps the genocides of the Armenian
The calendar showed January 30, 1969, when the four Beatles, along with Billy Preston, climbed onto the roof of the Apple Corps building at 3 Savile Row in Londons Mayfair and played live for the last time, just months before their final dissolution. Magazine, 53 years later, remembers the 42 minute
Exactly 72 years ago, in civil war and highly conservative Greece, Manos Hadjidakis gave a ground-breaking lecture on the theme of rebetiko song. The official title of his historic speech given on January 31, 1949 was interpretation and position of modern folk song. This was apparently also the opin
Once again, the general secretary of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoubas, was at the center of social media commentators. In particular, the general secretary of the KKE, during his speech during the debate on the motion of no confidence, referred to the recent publication of the historian Sergey Radchenk
The municipality of Rotterdam announced today that a historic bridge in the Dutch port city will be temporarily dismantled to allow the passage of a ship, a huge sailboat being built for former Amazon chairman and CEO Jeff Bezos, local media reported . The iconic 1878 bridge, which was repaired aft
One hour after midnight on February 2-3, 1959, a four-seat Beechcraft Bonanza B35 took off in a heavy snowstorm from the airport in Mason City, Iowa, bound for Moorhead, Minnesota. Passengers - apart from the pilot - were three great rock and roll stars:Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. The Big B
40 years ago, Lefteris Beryvakis put his signature on the circular which permanently abolished school aprons. The first Minister of Education of PASOK, once a partner of Alekos Panagoulis in the attempt against the dictator Papadopoulos and sentenced to life by the junta, put an end to the compulsor
In the cold winter of 1692, in Salem, Massachusetts, two girls, the Reverend Samuel Parishs daughter, Betty, and his ward, Abigail Williams, began to exhibit strange behavior. They were talking strangely, hiding under things and crawling on the floor. No doctor could explain the symptoms, until on
In the thousand-year history of Byzantium, there were no prisons, only dungeons for temporary detention, where the guilty lived until they were tried. The punishment - for punishment or reason - was usually carried out by the executioners, who if you were lucky and didnt cut off your whole head, the
The 9th of February, commemoration day of the national poet Dionysios Solomos, has been established as the World Day of the Greek Language, according to joint decision no. /2017). With the establishment of this world day, the aim is to highlight the fundamental role played by the Greek language ove
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. February 10, 1996 at 6:14 pm Garry Kasparov - considered by all experts of the sport to be the strongest player in the history of chess - rises from his seat, gives Feng Hsiung Hsu a cold look, shakes his hand congratulating him on his victory and walks away from the
Stone tools and a childs tooth found in a cave in southern France and dated to around 54,000 years ago are the earliest evidence of the presence of modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Western Europe, much earlier - by 10,000 to 12,000 years - than the so far estimates of when our ancestors first arrived
Bust of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, known as Caracalla. The origin of the nickname caracalla derives from a cloak of Celtic origin What is the origin of the nickname Caracalla ? The man who became emperor of Rome in 198 d. C. after the death of Septimius Severus , was his
The Battle of Valmy was the first military victory of the French revolutionary army, won against an Austro-Prussian army (reinforced by French emigrants) on September 20, 1792. Against all expectations, after a heavy cannonade, a fine harangue from Kellermann near the famous mill of Valmy, a few bri
Did Nikita Khrushchev really beat the shoe on the UN bench? if so, what pushed him that far and if it didnt, what really happened on October 12, 1960? It was a Wednesday that October 12, 1960, when the 902 a was underway at the UN building in New York planetary meeting of the general assembly of
Aztec men who eat. The Aztecs routinely consumed chocolate If there is a reason why we inhabitants of the Old Continent must be grateful to Christopher Columbus and to his overseas shipments, this is undoubtedly the cocoa. This wonder of nature was imported from the discovered lands, allowin