On several occasions we have spoken of animals that shared sorrows and joys with the armies, either as pets or actively participating and, of course, never of their own free will. But this time we are going to deal not with the animals themselves but with the names of animals used in the glorious Ro
One of the distinctive features of the Franco regime was the cult of personality that was dispensed to the figure of Francisco Franco. It is a defining element of all totalitarian political regimes; the irrational exaltation of the leader, the desire to control all facets of individuals lives and th
One of Chaplins famous movies is The Dictator. It was a movie that was completely ironic to Hitler, but in modern society the image of a dictator is very bad. Perhaps it was from the end of the Roman Republic that the image of the dictator began to deteriorate, but it can be said that it was thi
In 2004, a cemetery was discovered in York, England, where 80 young men were buried. Most of them had their heads chopped off. Researchers believe they were gladiators. Life and death struggle to the delight of the public, senators and the emperor himself. Constant training and the stigma of slave