I know that the title of this post may seem like a mistake – victory and humiliating – but… Kiska It is an island of the Rat Islands that are part of the Aleutian archipelago. In 1867 the United States acquired mainland Alaska and its western archipelagos from the Russian Empire, including Kiska Is
In military history there are often cases of armies that, harassed during their retreats, end up being decimated or even exterminated completely. The cases of the British who left Kabul or the Grand Armée returning from Russia are famous. But there is one little-known one that is somewhat surprising
St. George (13th century), one of the rock-hewn churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Established on the high plateaus of the Horn of Africa, near the western coasts of the Red Sea, the kingdom of Aksum imposed itself from the Ist century AD. AD as a trading partner in the great tra
The dictionary of the R.A.E. generically defines satire as a “sharp, pungent, biting speech or saying, aimed at censuring or ridiculing” . Something that must be as old as speech itself and, therefore, without an assigned inventor. Now, when it is taken to literature, it adopts its own form, a compo