On July 24, 2011 we made an entry, in this same blog, about turnismo in the Restoration. This was a fundamental element for political functioning during this period and, although its purpose was clear, its mechanisms were more complex, all of them being linked to electoral manipulation and the phenomenon known as "ribbling".
The following conceptual map complements and extends the one we offered on that occasion.
It was the middle of October, 1852, when a terrible storm broke out. The storm was so strong, it swelled the river. The bridge was swept away, cutting the town in two. The news spread by word of mouth, spreading fear among the residents. When and where did this happen? In 1852 in Athens. What was th
It was October 2016, when I met Kostas Politis in his favorite cafe in Glyfada. We sat together for two hours and thats it. What we did not say then, we added in another meeting at his Office, on Damareos Street, in Pagrati. I was then preparing the book 87 Nothing stopped us and his own testimonies
Why did the ancient Egyptians practice mummification ? And in what did this practice consist? A testimony, although now disputed and overcome thanks to modern archeology, comes to us from the historian Herodotus :he left us a fairly accurate description of this practice, arguing that it happen
Marie Antoinette hunting The hunt, especially the one with fox , it was a favorite activity of rulers and aristocrats in past centuries; the young king of France Louis XVI he had an even immeasurable passion for this discipline, so much so that he did not give up his daily hunting trip for