It is usually the ubiquitous things that we least notice in everyday life and about which we know the least. In English there is even an idiom for this:“Hiding in plain sight , hiding in sight. This applies in particular to things that shape our lives day after day but are somehow too abstract to al
After the excommunication of his brother Sancho II and the subsequent civil war, Alfonso III He occupied the throne of Portugal in 1248. Once the kingdom was pacified, the new monarch focused his forces on the conquest of the southern territories occupied by the Muslims. Once these were defeated,
With the Revolution appears a new machine for the application of capital punishment:the guillotine . It owes its name to Doctor Guillotin, a member of the Constituent Assembly, who in 1789 proposed to replace by beheading the punishments then in force for those condemned to death. He advocated the u
The Byzantine emperor John II Komnenos had married the Hungarian princess Piroska who was named Irini. In this way he found himself involved in the dynastic disputes of the Hungarian kingdom. John gave asylum to a relative of his wife, but the Hungarian king Stefanos preferred him dead. When John