Athens, April 20, 1941. Next Tuesday marks eighty years since that day, when the last act of the Battle of Athens drama unfolded, that is, the last air battle over the Attic sky, just a week before the swastika was raised on the Acropolis. On that day the last fifteen remaining RAF Hurricane fighter
When the founder of the Dane dynasty, Cnut, died, the problem of succession arose. Harthacnut, the son of Canute, once became King of England, but died for five years, and between Canuto and Emma, the daughter of the Duke of Normandy, Harthacnut also died in two years. The Dane dynasty will be c
The harangues of the champions before going into battle to inflame the spirits of the combatants are typical and, above all, very cinematographic. In this case, the confrontation occurred in the year 61 between Boudica , the queen of the Iceni, and Caius Suetonius Paulo , Roman governor of Britain.
If we search the RAE for the adjective numantino , the third of its meanings says «that tenaciously resists to the limit, often in precarious conditions «. Today, while we are looking for the origin of this meaning, we will pay tribute to the two thousand five hundred Numantinos who, all together l