Whenever a new disease, plague, epidemic or even pandemic makes the rounds, society plays out the same story. Whether it is the corona virus, its now somewhat old-fashioned relative SARS, swine flu or bird flu … the process is now well known. Panic for a while (sometimes more appropriate, sometimes
Copyright:© Louis Glanzman, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine 1966, www.si.edu. The history of the Cold War is often seen as a conflict between two worlds. On the one hand the capitalist West, on the other the communist East. And yet, especially in Eastern E
The peoples of the sea They were a confederation of Mediterranean sailors who during the second millennium BC raided and attacked the populations of Egypt and the Near East. The incursions of this confederation, which was not permanent nor its components fixed, were frequent in the Nile delta and in
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821) is considered one of the best military strategists in all of history but, like everyone else in life, he also suffered setbacks, defeats... and a great humiliation .Among the great setbacks we can mention the Russian campaign (1812) , as the most significant defeat