It is difficult, at first glance, to relate Coca-Cola and Durex, as representative figures of beverages and condoms marketed throughout the world, with a Hellenistic mathematician who lived during the 1st century... but not impossible. In addition to the success of the product itself and the massiv
Today is the birthday of the Hellenic Air Force. On this day, in 1912, the first four Henry Farman 50 hp military airplanes were named during a ceremony at the zoo in Paleo Faliro, in the presence of the Holy Synod, the government and other state authorities. The contractor was Prime Minister El
His books appear on almost every list of the 100 greatest works of world literature. He himself came from a Polish family, but everyone knows him under a foreign name. Did this genius writer not want to be Polish? Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, better known to the world as Joseph Conrad, was
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets In December 1154, Henry of Anjou was crowned at Westminster as King of England under the name of Henry II, thus giving rise to the Plantagenet dynasty, which would rule England and part of France for more than three hundred years. He was accompanied by his