Chrysippus of Soli , called «Column of the Portico «, was a Greek philosopher of the third century BC. who was influenced by the New Academy and became one of the main figures of Stoicism . A slightly arrogant scholar –if I thought there was someone better than me, I would have gone to be taught -,
We are located in Hamburg (Germany) in the year 1675 and we find a merchant named Hennig Brand . He was not an eminence in business but, due to his wifes dowry, he had enough money to devote his time to the noble art of alchemy. The alchemists (now they would be a mixture of chemists and geeks) were
Outside legal language, it may be that “Alea iacta est ”, the phrase that Julius Caesar pronounced when crossing the Rubicon, the stream that marked the limit between Republican Rome and Cisalpine Gaul, and heading to Rome with his legions, is the most used Latin expression with the meaning of “ the
Anglo-Saxon history books are full of stories about SS men and Nazi apparatchiks who buried various treasures in tunnels and caves in the last days of the war:gold, works of art, weapons ... But why should we get excited about what they did Teutons, if we had our own treasures? And the boys from the