Although all the constructions of Antiquity that are still standing today, regardless of their size, would deserve the prefix of mega Just for the fact that they are still standing, today I will talk about two of them, one civil and the other military, not very well known and that deserve the descri
The year 2019 had a special significance for a historic aircraft, one of the most famous in the whole planet, the legendary Dakota. Seventy-five years after D-Day, twelve restored C-47s with crews of volunteers and veterans made a trip of historical memory from the US to Europe as part of the Daks O
The capture of Rhodes, the last Christian bastion of the East, momentarily awakened the pope and the European powers. Again, a Greek contributed to this awakening, Janos Laskaris, a descendant of the Laskarids, the imperial family of Nicaea. Another Lascarian would later play a catalytic role in
The Battle of Fredericksburg (1862), in the midst of the Civil War, faced the troops of the Confederate general Robert Lee and General Ambrose E Burnside of the Union. The Union army suffered a severe defeat with more than 12,000 dead, wounded and prisoners. The Union offensive aimed to cross the