Posthumous portrait of Mozart. By Barbara Krafft. 1819 • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS On March 17, 1781, Mozart wrote to his father. It was the only time he addressed Leopold in such an affectionate way:“My very dear friend! A certain excitement shines through in the letter. The young composer had just arr
In 1947, when there was a scuffle in the area from the North-West Frontier Province to the Punjab and Sindh, the eastern border of India, that is, Bengal, was relatively calm at that time. Many historians attribute this peace to Gandhiji, but it cannot be denied that Bengal was settled by playing Ho
The list of inventions and discoveries made by man begins with fire and the wheel. Horseback is nowhere to be found in this list, while horseback has played as important a role in creating the world as fire and the wheel. The Roman Empire was also built not only on fire and wheel, but also on horseb
Neapolitans eating pasta, on an engraving from 1900 • NAPOLI MANGIAMACCHERONI Macaroni, spaghetti, ravioli, tortellini… With such a variety, there is no doubt that pasta is the Italian dish par excellence:there are some 200 types of pasta of all shapes (squares, tubes, sticks, spirals…), which a