Hugh Hefner went down in history for his relationships with countless women, but according to some close to the Playboy founder, his most stable relationship was with his doctor, Dr. Mark Saginor, also known as... Dr. Feelgood. The daughter of Dr. Saginor, Jennifer, says in Secrets of Playboy that
The calendar showed March 16, 1978, when shortly after 9 a.m. a group of Red Brigades ambushed former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in the center of Rome, executing his entourage and kidnapping him. After 54 days of fruitless negotiations with the Italian government and after the kidnappers reali
The 1987-88 season may be the most exciting we have ever seen in Greek stadiums. By the time it was over, Giorgos Koskotas had given up football, the Vardinogiannis brothers had been accused of beating up OAKA officials and AEK denounced an attempted bribe in the Cup match against Olympiakos. And th
Where the lyrical narration and some of the materials of surrealism met, where the Greek tradition walked hand in hand with European modernism, where the dream and imagination were illuminated by the Greek archipelago, where the harsh conscience expressed through allegorical contemplation, that is w
Influences, References, Homage to Origins and Personal Views. This is how Bob Dylans first record can be described, which was released today 60 years ago and contained only two of his own tracks. All the others were reruns of his favorite creations. His only compositions were Talking New York, Song
In 1821 it was not only the well-known heroes who went down in history for their action. It was also the invisible warriors, and of course the women, who stood on the side of the Struggle, contributed with their own contribution and largely remained in the shadow of the records regarding what accomp
At dawn on March 21, 1970, Manolis Chiotis passed away. That is, the same day as his birthday, since he was born on March 21, 1921 in Thessaloniki to Nafplion parents. An interview of Chiotis in 1968 In November 2008, the 4th issue of the Oasis magazine included a long tribute by the folk song rese
Today marks twenty-three years since March 24, 1999, when NATO began air strikes against Yugoslavia, after the latter refused to sign the agreement on the future of Kosovo. The official code name of the NATO operation was Operation Allied Force. The bombing lasted almost 3 months and was followe
Speaking in Agia Lavra, during the events of the Municipality of Kalavryta for the Anniversary of the beginning of the National Rebellion on March 25, 1821, the former President of the Republic and Honorary Professor of the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Mr. Prokop
From June 1950, when he returned to Greece to reorganize the then almost disbanded illegal apparatus of the KKE (one year after the end of the Civil War and the defeat of the Democratic Army), Nikos Belogiannis became the favorite of the prosecuting authorities, the which devote pages upon pages in
Monday, August 3, 1936, Berlin Olympic Stadium. Second day of the competition program of the 11th Olympic Games, with the big protagonist being the 100 meter race. In the packed stands, 110,000 spectators waited to enjoy the six finalists, who were in their starting positions. Three Americans, Jesse
The Palace of Versailles is reopening a part of it that had been hidden from the eyes of visitors for a long time and which is a very important part, not only of its own history, but of the whole of France - and perhaps also of sport. The Jeu de Paume room, a game that is considered the ancestor o
Nick Rennisons book, 1922 - The Year That Changed the World , brings the landmark year of 22 back to life by focusing on its special significance. The Ottoman Empire collapsed after six centuries. The British Empire began to crumble. The Soviet Union was founded while Mussolinis Italy was becoming t
And yet, one can easily find references in recorded history to women who fought in the arena. They may not be the most well-known cases, they may not immediately come to mind when we hear the word Coliseum, but in the pursuit of originality and television, the entrepreneurs of the genre - yes, there
It was April 5, 1994 when Kurt Cobain decided to end his life. On the occasion of the 28th anniversary of his untimely death, we remember the most important passages from his last interview with Rolling Stone magazine. The interview was published on January 27, 1994, a few months after the release
In the post-revolutionary period, robbery was on the rise, despite various measures taken by governments to neutralize it. The sparsely populated countryside, insufficient policing, lax guarding of the Greek-Turkish border and the political immunity of some bandits contributed to the maintenance of
Monday, April 13, 1970, 10:08 PM EST (North American Eastern Time Zone). At the Apollo 13 flight control center in Houston, Texas, NASA scientists watched the three astronauts, Lovell, Schweigert and Hayes, travel to the Moon. It had already been 55 hours 55 minutes and 19 seconds since launch, the
The sinking of the Titanic has been written into maritime history and still resonates in popular culture thanks to the 1997 film of the same name. It remains one of the worst peacetime sinkings in history, costing an estimated 1,500 lives, many lost in the icy seas Atlantic waters. The details are
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy would become the protagonist of the most famous unsolved assassination of the 20th century—unwittingly of course. During the motorcade he was leading through the streets of Dallas, he would drop dead inside the presidential limousine, and a slew of conspiracy th
We would say that no war has any sense, but there are some that do not make much more sense than the rest, although I am not very sure how meaningfully - perhaps also meeting - such a sentence stands. Here are five such instances of wars, with men coming to blows for ridiculous reasons, either in
Not all wars are broadcast on television and the Internet as much as the conflicts in Iraq or Afghanistan. Although they are less media, tens of thousands of people are also dying in them. Millions suffer poverty and hunger because of them. Check if you really know the history of the last half centu
Have you ever imagined why Swiss chocolate has become so popular? Well, your imagination is logical. Switzerland has emerged as a leading chocolate producer without having any cocoa plantation at home. In addition, the chocolate business around the world appeared more than 3,000 years ago when resid
Families being separated, refusal of a dignified burial of the dead, forced abortions ... Poles who went to work in Germany during World War II had no rights. When I came to the bars, three Poles and a soldier - a slave - French already worked for them. One of the Poles, Józek, came from Turek.
He is one of those rulers whom history and historians have no mercy on. A pusher of the powerful, a Germans henchman, the most ordinary figurehead with no merit. This is how Władysław Herman, reigning in the years 1079-1102, was remembered in Poland. According to Professor Kazimierz M. Barański - co