The Japanese have a bad reputation for being copycats. Always appropriating other peoples ideas or inventions and then modifying and improving them on your own. But that sambenito is quite unfair. For example, if we say that in Japan they have an indigenous version of the Camino de Santiago, there w
Tadeusz Kościuszko went down in history as a hero of three nations. But he might as well have ended his life in the choppy Atlantic waters as an unknown unemployed person. In the spring of 1776, almost all of Europe lived on what was happening on the other side of the ocean, where the inhabitant
The historical site of Thermopylae became a battlefield not only in the famous conflict of 480 BC. but several more times in history. In 996 AD the Bulgarians, under Tsar Samuel, taking advantage of the involvement of the emperor Vasilios Bulgaroktonos with the Arabs, besieged Thessaloniki. However,
Dante Alighieri In addition to being the greatest Italian poet, he was a man of action, committed to his city, Florence, which he loved above all things and which he ended up losing forever. Fate has wanted that he, not even after death, has he been able to return to the shelter of his homeland. A