The Arabs were the greatest threat to the existence of the Byzantine Empire until the arrival of the Turks. After their initial successes and the conquest of Egypt, Palestine and other Byzantine lands, their goal was to conquer the Queen of Cities, Constantinople. Although they failed, twice, the
As I say in the title, the best thing that could happen with the letter that George Bissell sent him to Edwin Drake It was… arriving late . For many years the lighting of homes depended on candles made of wax or animal fat (tallow). The wax ones were better but much more expensive. The tallow ones
The context. The cantonalist phenomenon falls within the framework of the First Spanish Republic, being one of the most extreme manifestations of that period since it involved an explosion of long-silent popular desires. After the abdication of Amadeo I, the Cortes, united Congress and Senate in a
Sign language is a system of gestural expression that allows deaf people to communicate with each other or with anyone who knows them. Of course, I recognize that, given my limitations when it comes to expressing myself in languages other than my mother tongue, I have had to resort to this form of