The Roman Emperor Constantine II could very well have gone down in history because of, among other things, the mess of names he had:his name was Heraclius Constantinus Augustus, although he also appears as Flavius Constantinus Augustus and in his time he was known as Kōnstantinos Pogonatos, i.e. C
The sources we currently have are woefully scarce . In any case, we can highlight some such as the famous Tabera-Fonseca lawsuit, or the work of the Galician hidalgo Vasco de Aponte Recount of the old houses of the Kingdom of Galicia, written in the first decades of the 16th century. Among the curre
At the beginning of October 1915 the young lieutenant Erwin Rommel was transferred to the newly formed Württemberg Mountain Hunter Battalion. The battalion of Mountain Hunters had a completely different composition compared to the battalions of the common infantry. It had six companies, instead of t
The Risala by Ibn Fadlan It is not very prodigal in fantastic stories and not at all prone to supernatural explanations of what is observed. What the Muslim sage is describing in this passage are the northern lights that he observed on his trip to Russia, on the banks of the Volga, in the middle of