Alexander Smorel is a special case in history. He was German, he was orthodox and he was a member of the White Rose organization, an organization of young German fighters against the Hitlerite cesspool. He was born in Russia in 1917. His father was a German living in Russia and his mother was Russia
At the outbreak of the First World War, the territories of what would now be the Czech Republic and Slovakia —Czechoslovakia until 1992— were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but their membership was due more to political issues than to a sense of identity with the Habsburgs. In fact, they had m
Mercury thermometers (an invention of Daniel Fahrenheit in 1714) • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS At the beginning of the XVIIth century, Santorio Santorio was one of the great names in Italian medicine. During his youth, he began by settling in Croatia, then in Venice to practice medicine, which he then tau
Like any honorable young girl, Joan of Arc knew how to spin, but no one has ever seen her write or read or use a prayer book. • LIST Whether or not Jeanne knew how to read and write is still an open question today. 19th century historians century leaned in general for the ignorance of the Maid.