Largest country in South America, Brazil is beyond the clichés a country rich in history strongly influenced by Portuguese colonization. Pedro Álvares Cabral took possession of it in the name of the King of Portugal in 1500 and the colony quickly became prosperous, attracting the covetousness of the
A handwritten note from Walter Kirke , head of the secret services of the British Expeditionary Force (British Expeditionary Force) during the First World War, aroused the curiosity of the English historian Raphael Stipic … […] a young woman dressed as a man and headed to the front line hoping to
Kurt Kniezpel was born in 1921 in the Sudetenland of what was then Czechoslovakia. He belonged to the German minority there. After the occupation of the region by Hitlers Germany, he took German citizenship and thus, in 1940, joined the German army. He was assigned to the armored weapon, never being
Sukhothai Kingdom , former kingdom, north-central Thailand . It was founded in the mid-13th century when a local Tai rulers led an uprising against Khmer rule. It remained a small local power until its third ruler, Ramkhamhaeng , the kingdom c inherited . 1279. He extended h