Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets Nottingham Castle is well known for tales involving Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham. These stories are still an interesting fictional story. However, in Nottingham Castle, two centuries after the legend of Robin Hood, a true story took place that i
First of all, I would like to specify that the term moro comes from the Latin maurus, the name of the inhabitants of the Roman province of Mauritania orMauretania , an area of North Africa that corresponded to the Mediterranean coast of what is now Morocco and that has nothing to do with the cur
Todays Spain owes many of its institutions to the Catholic Monarchs. Centuries before the National Police was founded, these monarchs understood the need to create an armed body that would ensure the safety of citizens. Thus, in 1476 the kingdom of Castile became the first in Europe to have a public
He had a reputation as incorruptible. There were legends about his integrity. This lifelong image collapsed ... in just 24 hours. What was enough to say to knock someone off the top so quickly and send them to the guillotine? The fall of Maximilian Robespierre, which took place on the 9th of The