Charlie Allnut, a drunken simpleton Canadian transporter who travels the Ulanga River aboard his boat, has to rescue Rose, the Puritan sister of a missionary killed by askaris Germans during World War I. Together they flee by river aboard The African Queen going through a thousand adventures, in th
In the 1st century AD. C. a new hero appeared in literature. So Silio Italico wrote Punica , an epic poem about the Second Punic War (218-201 BC) who faced Carthaginians and Romans. At a certain point in the story, an extraordinary warrior emerges: The action is set in the Roman assault on Hannos ca
The pre-colonial period took place from 1500 to 1535. Its main characteristic was the almost absence of effective colonization policies by Portugal in relation to Brazil. The period that began in 1500 with the arrival of Pedro Álvares Cabral to Brazil and it was until the mid-1530s with the creatio
The Second World War gradually ended in Europe in the spring of 1945 (in the Pacific it lasted until the end of the summer). After Hitlers death on April 30, Admiral Dönitz replaced him as head of the German government and on May 2 he surrendered Berlin to the Soviets, the same day that most of the