The May Day 1707 the Act of Union signed by the Parliaments of England and Scotland takes effect. It gives birth to the Kingdom of Great Britain and puts a definitive end to the age-old rivalry between London and Edinburgh. This treaty is the result of the process of rapprochement between the two ki
The word Mesopotamia means between two rivers and refers to the city-states, empires, and civilizations that arose between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Mesopotamian civilization is called the cradle of Humanity, because there lived peoples who left to humanity legacies such as the division
The immobile and repressive policies of the Bourbons during the Second Restoration provoked growing unease among broad layers of French society, despite the fact that the new enthronement meant the conclusion of a cycle of twenty years of wars that had ruined and bled France, placing it under the tu
The Vittoriale degli Italiani It is a monumental palace made up of a complex of buildings and gardens that Gabriele DAnnunzio commissioned from the architect Giancarlo Maroni in 1921 , to celebrate the exploits of the so-called Vate (Prophet) and Italian forces during World War I. There he spent the