History of Europe

• The Nobel in love and stunned.

  Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (1835-1917) was a German mathematician, physicist and chemist awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1905 for the development of organic chemistry. His greatest scientific achievement was the discovery of an acid with sedative and hypnotic properties. in 18

• Feminist human rights.

  Frances support for independence from the United States, constant clashes with the English, and several years of poor harvests left the royal coffers almost empty. The French monarch, Louis XVI, took the quickest and easiest way:more taxes. This new measure had to be approved by the States General .

• The savior of miners.

  George Stephenson He was a British engineer and inventor famous for being the inventor of the steam engine (which later perfected his son Robert). But the miners will be eternally grateful to him for being the inventor of the safety lamp for mines (he shared credit for the invention with the Briti

• The anecdote of the tortilla that united two geniuses (Paris 1848)

  That night in 1848 the young Jules he was wearing his only suit, the one that carefully took turns with his friend Eduoard Bonamy to frequent some other literary and intellectual gathering in Paris. He tried not to let his clothing reveal his provincial Nantes origin to the gathering, and even les

• Moments in History. Narvaez

  Ramón María Narváez y Campos , the Sword of Loja , was a Spanish soldier and politician, seven times president of the council of ministers between 1844 and 1868. Chairing a Council of Ministers, mostly moderate, one of the attendees was reluctant to sign one of the provisions that were discussed.

• Cruelty according to William Hogarth

  William Hogarth He was a British painter who cultivated several genres of painting:portraits, engravings, illustrations... But in this post we are going to stay with a series of satirical engravings called «The four stages of cruelty «. In this series of four engravings he represents the different

• The Beagle unmasked the giants

  The Beagle , under the command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy, left Davenport (England) on December 27, 1831 with a team of botanists, naturalists, physicists... (among whom was Charles Darwin ). The British Crown sponsored this scientific and geographical exploration expedition. They skirted the Cana

• the requetes

  Many do not know the Requetés and today we are going to talk about them, they were Carlist soldiers who actively participated in the First Carlist War. Later these soldiers were called «the Navarrese forces » and were part of General Francos army during our unfortunate confrontation between brother

• The macho scientist who tasted his own medicine

  Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm Bischoff (October 28, 1807 – December 5, 1882) was a German biologist and anatomist. Born in Hanover (Germany), he focused his studies in the area of ​​embryology. He was a professor of anatomy at the University of Heidelberg, of physiology at the University of Giessen, and of

• For a coin, feel the electricity!

  The Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) invented the electric battery in 1800. With a stack of zinc and copper discs, separated by cardboard discs moistened with an electrolyte, and joined at their ends by an external circuit, Volta managed, for the first time, to produce continuous elect

• Biac-Na-Bató

  Biac-Na-Bató It was a pact signed by the Spanish authorities and the Filipino rebels on December 14, 1897, after five months of negotiations. Pedro Alejandro Paterno was appointed , Filipino statesman, as mediator between Fernando Primo de Rivera , Captain General of the Philippines, and Emilio Agu

• Somaten

  It was called Somatén (from the Catalan som atents which means we are attentive) to the local Catalan militias that have functioned since the Middle Ages for the purpose of public order. Somatén is an onomatopoeic expression that evokes the spontaneous cry for help asking the neighbors for help to

• Retouched historical photos. Abraham Lincoln

  The famous photograph of the American president Abraham Lincoln from 1860 had a little trick (apparently he was not supposed to pose very well). A photograph of southern politician John Calhoun was used and he swapped his head for Abraham Lincolns. Imagen

• Hobbies and extravagance with History. Part 1

  FROM BUTTER MAN TO KARPOV YOGURT OF SOME SCIENTISTS… Gaspar Balaus doctor and poet of the seventeenth century had a mania that, in the end, would end up costing him his life:he was convinced that he was made of butter . This led him to avoid any source of heat (a fireplace, a lamp, etc) so

• strange deaths. Allan Pinkerton

  Allan Pinkerton He was born in Glasgow (Scotland) in 1819. He later emigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago. In 1852 he founded the Pinkerton Detective Agency (the first in the entire United States) by solving a series of train robberies. In 1861 he was assigned the task of guarding

• The greatest generals in history

  The greatest generals in history are General Sherman and the General Grant . But the trick, in this resounding statement, is that we are referring to the Sequoias or Redwoods (Sequoiadendron giganteum, Giant Sequoias ) Sherman and Grant. General Grant . Located in Grant Grove (within Kings Canyon

• Malaspina Expedition

  Although it bears the name of Malaspina It was an expedition led by the sailors Alejandro Malaspina and Jose Bustamante . Its main objectives were to go around the world (emulating Elcano) and make an exhaustive study (flora, fauna, mines, cartography, etc.) of all the possessions of the Crown (like

• Mathematicians are not of letters.

  Although it seems obvious, we are going to explain it. Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet , he was an eminent German mathematician of the 19th century who, although he wrote a book (perhaps he also had a “black”), made it very clear that numbers were his thing. His phobia of letters, telegrams a

• Uncertain origin of the military salute.

  We continue with the collaboration of our friends. In this case, Senovilla of Thoughts JFS. Some historians say that it can be thought that it began at the time of the Roman Empire, when due to the large number of murderers that were perpetrated, it became customary that when going to see an office

• May 2 uprising

  Background : In 1807, France and Spain signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau . They agree on the distribution of Portugal (an ally of England) between the two powers. Controlled the sea by the English and the Portuguese, the only option was for the French troops to cross the peninsula, so numerous Fre