One smart man convinced all of Poland that sugar is a medicine for everything. And he made good money on it! “Poland seen from the window of the wagon is a very picturesque country,” thought a Frenchman who traveled around Poland by train in the early 1930s. - “Railway station buildings very neat
The role played by the Transition in contemporary Spain is currently subject to a historiographical debate not devoid of political intentions. For a long time, an interpretation prevailed that presented such a process as a model example of the transition from a dictatorial regime to a democratic one
The “discovery” of America by Christopher Columbus in 1492 is still considered a great civilizational achievement in the western world. At least the day of his arrival is still celebrated as a public holiday, for example in the USA or Spain. Columbus voyage did change the world forever - but for the
Guerrilla warfare is not an invention of our time. Terrible examples of it exist from ancient times... to the present day. In Greece, in recent times, during the approximately 400 years of Turkish rule, a continuous guerilla war was fought in the mountains. In 1808 the Spanish began a fierce guer