Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets Edward III is probably one of the best kings England has ever had in her history. He won the right to govern when he was barely seventeen years old, he was the initiator of the Hundred Years War, he won the crucial battles of Crécy and Poitiers, he managed
The archimandrite Theoktistos, born Vasilios Alexopoulos, was born in 1909 in the small village of Syrna in southeastern Gortynia. After graduating from Primary school he worked as a shoe shiner. He then learned the shoemakers trade. However, his love for Christ led him to the decision to become a m
Sebastian Visconti Prasca was a peculiar case of man and general. Born in Rome, in 1883, into a noble family that traced its descent from the Dukes of Milan, he graduated from the military academy in 1904 with the rank of second lieutenant. He fought in the Italo-Turkish War of 1912, where he was de
BETWEEN 490 AND 479 BC. AD Greece is invaded by the Persians: This is the beginning of the Persian Wars. The Greeks defend themselves and crush the Persians during a terrible battle at Marathon. A runner carries the good news in Athens, for more than 32 km, and dies of exhaustion. The modern marath