In 1176 the Byzantine Empire suffered one of the most devastating defeats in its history at Myrikefalo. The Seljuk Turks continued their devastating raids in Asia Minor, taking advantage of their victory. However, Byzantium was still able to react and in fact particularly dynamically and effectively
If there is a spy on which rivers of ink have been spilled, it is without a doubt Sidney Reilly. Ian Fleming himself, author of the series of novels starring James Bond and himself a member of the British secret services for a time, acknowledged that in building the personality of the famous spy he
In 586 AD the Byzantine Empire and that of the Sassanid Persians were again at war. In 582 AD general Maurice had ascended the throne of Constantinople. Oromisdas IV did not reign in Ctesiphon. The war continued in different phases with the Persians having the initiative on the border of Mesopotamia
Sylvester Graham he was a Presbyterian minister who belonged to the temperance movements of the first third of the 19th century in the US -those that in 1920 managed to get Prohibition approved-. While his fellow reformers dealt with social and humanitarian issues such as alcohol consumption, womens