Deer , the charrúa cacique, amicably extended General Rivera the knife that he had asked him to chop his tobacco. However, the military reacted unexpectedly; he jerked back, feigning surprise, and in the same motion he drew his revolver and shot her. That was the signal that the rest of his troops,
In the liberation struggle of 1821 most deaths came from epidemics and not on the battlefield. The besieged of Messolongion, after the exhaustion of food reserves, were forced to consume all the domestic animals that existed, while some in their desperation resorted to necrophagy. They drank wate
The Salic Law , or law of the Salian Franks, is a civil and penal code whose mythical origin goes back to the legendary Frankish king Pharamond. Written between the 6th and 7th centuries, the Salic law has been, except in certain monastic centers, forgotten. A provision of this law, excluding women
The problem of food conservation was a constant throughout history – we have already seen the conservation of water – until the Frenchman Nicolas Appert In 1804, he devised the first preservation system. This system, described in his book « The art of preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable sub