Todays post takes us back to the convulsive early years of the Christian peninsular kingdoms, in which they were so busy trying to define their borders and their own identity against to the rest of the monarchies descended from the Visigoths as well as to gain ground from the Muslim occupants of the
Who is the best commander of the Army? This is a rather rough debate. It can be said that land warfare was the main in human history, and there are many invincible commanders, so it will be very difficult to decide the strongest. So who is the best commander of the Navy? This would be no other
Sylvester Graham he was a Presbyterian minister who belonged to the temperance movements of the first third of the 19th century in the US -those that in 1920 managed to get Prohibition approved-. While his fellow reformers dealt with social and humanitarian issues such as alcohol consumption, womens
After the Battle of Manzikert (1071), in which the Seljuks defeated the Byzantine troops and even captured the basileus Roman IV Diogenes , the Turks began the invasion of the Anatolian peninsula. In just a few years the Byzantines were to lose their main breadbasket and the recruiting ground for th