When John H.G. Read he was sentenced to death, he told the judge: The reason I am so calm is that I trust in the Lord and he knows that I am innocent. And it seems that the Lord, destiny, luck – or who knows what – believed in his innocence because the sentence passed could not be carried out. B
Residents of mid-19th-century San Francisco were used to seeing all kinds of quirky characters on their streets. The gold rush was on its last legs and a veritable tide of outlaws, settlers, opportunists, and people of the most diverse stripes had flocked like flies to honey, attracted by the promis
December 15, 1937 is considered the day when the term Greek became a political category and led to mass arrests of members of the Greek minority in the Soviet Union. The persecutions included all male Greeks regardless of their political or social status. The entire Greek leadership group consisting
The historical site of Thermopylae became a battlefield not only in the famous conflict of 480 BC. but several more times in history. In 996 AD the Bulgarians, under Tsar Samuel, taking advantage of the involvement of the emperor Vasilios Bulgaroktonos with the Arabs, besieged Thessaloniki. However,