For study purposes, the First World War (1914-1918) is divided into 3 phases: War of Movement (1914) Position or Trench Warfare (1915-1917) Second Movement War/End Phase (1918) War of Movement (1914) In the first months of the war, the troop movement strategy was widely used for taking positions
First day on the island of Java As I have already written that we had booked a service apartment in Yogyakarta through a website. This was the flat of a Muslim teacher named Maspriyo. He assured us that we would be able to enjoy our stay in the two room and one kitchen service apartment he provided
Nero at Bayes. By Jan Styka. Private collection How do we know we have power over people? By making them suffer. The “mad emperors” of antiquity did not know this precept of George Orwell, but they all applied it cheerfully. Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Domitian or Commodus all had one thing in com
When the Roman general Sulla took Athens in 86 B.C. he got a fantastic prize:Aristotles library. Indeed, much of the library of the famous philosopher had been taken back to Athens by Apelicon, who had bought it in very poor condition and dedicated himself to restoring it, not too tactfully. The R