In the Russian land, for centuries, there were peoples who produced excellent light horsemen. The most famous were the Cossacks. They followed various Asian tribes, such as the Tatars or the Kalmuks. The Cossacks gradually joined the Russian, tsarist armies, from the 16th century and remained loyal
The Manhattan Project, carried out in the 1940s in the United States, made it possible to build the first atomic bombs in history. What was the Manhattan Project? Manhattan Project was the name given to the great mobilization of military and scientific efforts with a view to the construction of the
We are accustomed, thanks to literature and cinema, to the image of medieval horsemen engaged in chivalric tournaments. Although this type of competition and its rules are exclusively a medieval invention, in reality similar exercises existed long before, such as the one practiced by the Roman caval
This funny dialogue corresponds to The Tesmophorians , a comedy written by Aristophanes in 411 BC. which takes place during the Tesmoforias, homonymous festivals that were celebrated in honor of the goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone. When the Athenians plan to take revenge on Euripides for