- The defendants argued they were ordered to follow their superiors as justification for participating in heinous acts; they were ultimately punished by hanging.
In 1176 the Byzantine Empire suffered one of the most devastating defeats in its history at Myriokefalo. The Seljuk Turks continued their devastating raids in Asia Minor, taking advantage of their victory. However, Byzantium was still able to react and in fact particularly dynamically and effectivel
In September 1939, Lieutenant Mieczysław Przybylski commanded a company in the 1st Podhale Rifle Regiment. He fought bravely and when he was cut off with his men near Szymbark by the overwhelming German forces, he immediately went into partisan activities. Wounded in one of the skirmishes, in Octobe
History, as we think we know it, has become a legend :that of Marguerite de Provence who, by marrying the young King of France Louis IX in 1234, also married his mother Blanche de Castille …She turns out to be a tyrannical stepmother , jealous and petty, preventing the spouses from living their love
In June 1935, at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Jerusalem, a certain Stanley Philipson presented a project to establish a new city in Palestine. There would be no sensation in this, if not for the fact that the new housing estate was to be named after ... Marshal Piłsudski, who d