World War II saw the dramatic rise of the United States and the Soviet Union as global superpowers. The United States emerged from the war as the world's leading economic and military power, while the Soviet Union controlled a vast Eastern European empire and possessed a sizable nuclear arsenal. The conflict between these two superpowers would dominate international relations for the next four decades.
After the death of Nicholas IV, in April 1292, the conclave met to elect the new Pope but the College of Cardinals, made up of 12 members, was divided among the supporters of the Orsini and the Colonna , which made it impossible for any of the candidates proposed by each of the factions to outnumbe
Entry extracted from the book «From war to unification. History of León and Castile from 1037 to 1252». The Almohad empire, which had penetrated the Peninsula in the mid-twelfth century and by 1172 had taken over all the domains that had belonged to their Almoravid predecessors, suffered a severe c
L’Ile du Sable (Isla de la Arena) is a small islet of 0.8 square km in the Indian Ocean, more than 300 kilometers from Madagascar, the nearest mainland. She was the protagonist of a miserable story. In the words of Max Guérout , a marine archaeologist and former French naval officer, who led a 2007
The journalist and writer Ramón Pérez de Ayala said that when the scam is huge it already takes a decent name. Name that in the case of the ruse carried out by the Scotsman Gregor MacGregor took the name of Kingdom of Poyais , a fictitious country that never existed and with which he managed to tric