The pizza maker. Illustration by F. Palizzi. 1858 • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS In 1889, Humbert Ist , King of Italy, and his wife, Margaret of Savoy, make an official visit to Naples. As they walk through the streets of the city center, they are intrigued by the smell that emanates from certain bakeries.
Although a movement called the Renaissance had started in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century AD and people started thinking in a new way, the Roman Church considered itself so mature and unchangeable that it was based on new ideas, philosophical epistemology and scientific experiments. The
Kurt Kniezpel was born in 1921 in the Sudetenland of what was then Czechoslovakia. He belonged to the German minority there. After the occupation of the region by Hitlers Germany, he took German citizenship and thus, in 1940, joined the German army. He was assigned to the armored weapon, never being
The Mayan government was structured into independent city-states, each led by a warlord who was assisted by priests and tax collectors. By Me. Cláudio FernandesThe Mayan civilization It developed between the 6th and 10th centuries AD, on the Yucatan Peninsula, in the south of what is now Mexico. Th