A 1925 police raid in Elk Lake, during the era of prohibition in the United States • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS “Tonight, one minute after midnight, a new nation will be born. The drink demon makes his will. An era of clear ideas and fine manners begins. Slums will soon be a thing of the past. Prisons an
In the years after World War I, a democratic regime that became known as the Weimar Republic was installed in the defeated Germany. Actually this name was given a posteriori , because the National Constituent Assembly was held in the city of the same name, although the official denomination was sti
It remains shocking that from the people who invented the alphabet and by extension taught half the world to write, the Phoenicians, nothing of their literature has come down to us except for three fragments of papyrus. It is true that some 10,000 stone inscriptions and pottery fragments are preser
Although the war in 1918 was essentially a fight of infantry, the Americans had powerful armour, artillery and air support; they could field 189 Renault Ft17 light tanks, nearly all of them under the command of the original, and brilliant, Lieutenant-Colonel George Smith Patton Junior, the same man