Bartholomew Roberts , also known as Black Bart Like many other pirates he was born in Wales, yet he had little else in common with them. After serving as a sailor on a slave ship, he joined the crew of Howel Davis , the pirate who captured them and from whom he would inherit his crew upon his death.
All of ancient Greece was brought to life around us by Ilias Kanaris, as well as the quality of its deaths. Not because he is braver than other brave men, but because he embraces the difficult hour with such brio that the enemies stand weak against him. Without suspecting it himself, he thinks like
We are all familiar with the expression «you are older than Methuselah » to express that a person is very old or, rather, has many years. The comparison with Methuselah is due to the fact that he is the oldest person mentioned in the Old Testament (he died at the age of 969 years) and for you to hav
Egyptian Hellenism reverently bowed the knee to the dead of the heroic battle of El Alamein, during yesterdays 79th anniversary of the event that marked the beginning of the end of the Italo-German axis and the Second World War. At the Greek Fallen Monument in the Egyptian city, which year by year i