Anne Frank she was a young woman from a Jewish family who became internationally known for recording her confinement in a personal diary, which later received the title:Anne Franks Diary . She was confined with her family and four others in a building in Amsterdam. She was eventually captured and se
In Washington, Professor Fisher is more reserved. In front of several bankers, he declares:“There is no inflation on safe values, for most of them, at least. However, everywhere market support is announced for the next day.Thursday the 24th — “Black Thursday” — sounds the death knell for American pr
Horace Wells botched surgery is re-enacted in a vintage engraving • ALAMY STOCK PHOTO Pain and illness have accompanied man throughout his history, but it was not until the middle of the 19th century that the fight against pain is beginning to bear fruit. It all begins at the end of December 18
On July 28, 1480, 128 Turkish ships anchored before the walls of the city of Otranto (Hydros). 18,000 Turks under the leadership of Gedik Ahmed Pasha disembarked from the ships. Immediately the Turks began a heavy cannonade. The small garrison (about 140 men) and the approximately 17,000 inhabitants