It was a horrible profile against the sky, that of this monument; especially at night, when there was a little moonlight on those white skulls, or when the evening wind rustled chains and skeletons, and stirred it all up in the shadows Victor Hugo – Notre-Dame de Paris The Montfaucon gibbet, an i
Just as this damn pandemic has left us with recurring images, such as that of uniformed professionals with PPE - an acronym for Personal Protective Equipment -, the years of the black death also had their own, such as the so-called plague doctors . Hired and paid by the cities to treat local patient
Since the 8th century, the Muslims, who controlled North Africa, bled the African continent of its human resources in every possible way. The spread of Islam into so-called Black Africa entailed the capture of millions of slaves who were shipped north via routes across the Sahara, and to the Arabi
It is believed that the first law that referred to copyright - those rights that depending on which side you are on are seen in one way or another - was the Queen Anne Statute of Great Britain promulgated on April 10, 1710. Its original title: An act for the encouragement of learning, by vesting t