Portrait of George Brummell (1778 -1840), known as Beau Brummell • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS In London in 1815, two events caused a sensation:the British victory at Waterloo and the eccentric ties of George Brummell. As Virginia Woolf writes, empires like Napoleons could rise and fall; Beau Brummell, un
Now defunct, the Stasi was the political police, the espionage and counterintelligence service of the German Democratic Republic, created in 1949 and disappeared in 1990 with reunification. Its name comes from the diminutive of Staatssicherheitsdienst, which designates the security services of the f
An ancient manuscript, the Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis , more commonly known as “ Navigatio , Narrates the adventure of an Irish monk who lived in 500 AD. who made, together with some brothers, a long journey aboard a leather boat (ox skins). This monk was called Brendano and he left Ire
Amelia Earhart, born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897 and disappeared in the region of the Phoenix Islands archipelago (current Kiribati) on July 2, 1937, was an American aviator. She is famous in particular for having been, in June 1928, the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane. Chi