Suppose Sparta were devastated and only the temples with the foundations remained:after a long time its power would raise, I believe, in relation to its renown, serious doubts among future generations. (1) The warning of the Athenian historian Thucydides is clear:between the legend told, even alter
FROM BUTTER MAN TO KARPOV YOGURT OF SOME SCIENTISTS… Gaspar Balaus doctor and poet of the seventeenth century had a mania that, in the end, would end up costing him his life:he was convinced that he was made of butter . This led him to avoid any source of heat (a fireplace, a lamp, etc) so
Manuel Azaña Díaz was the Second President of the Second Republic . He was born on January 10, 1880 in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid). He studied Law in Madrid and Paris. His activity was divided between politics and letters. Between 1913 and 1920, he was secretary of the Ateneo de Madrid, of which he b
August 10, 1792 is a great insurrectional day of the French Revolution during which Parisians stormed the Tuileries Palace and ended the constitutional monarchy. It originated in a manifesto by the Duke of Brunswick, head of the Prussian army, which promised the revolutionaries terrible reprisals if