Born in Valladolid in 1601 - Died in Paris in 1666. Queen of France. Daughter of Philip III of Spain and Margaret of Austria, she received, in Habsburg fashion, more education than instruction when she was married, aged fourteen, to Louis XIII, her junior by five. days. Justified by the needs of t
Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel Ribera y Velasco de Tovar, Count of Olivares and Duke of Sanlucar la Mayor was an important Spanish royal minister and favourite, born in Rome on January 6, 1587 and died on July 22, 1645 in Toro, near Zamora. His name is often shortened to Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel and
The one who is considered the first Roman writer in history was born in Taranto around the year 284 BC. and he was Greek. Taranto was a Greek colony in Magna Graecia (the southern Italian peninsula) that had asked King Pyrrhus of Epirus for help in his fight against Rome. However, the defeat of this
In Scandinavian mythology, the Aesir (from Old Icelandic Æsir, ásafólk, ása ættir) were the group of principal gods, associated or related to Odin, and inhabiting the city of Ásgard. They are often referred to under the generic term of guðin gods. The feminine term is Asynes. They appeared in Scandi