The war in Vietnam has been nicknamed the dirty war, as if there had ever been a clean war in history. However, in Vietnam it was the nature of the struggle – guerilla warfare – that made it a hard, savage struggle from the start, beyond the rules of war. Both sides, as almost always happens in a
The Maginot Line was a system of fortifications built from 1928 to 1938, located on the northeastern border of France. It bears the name of the Minister of War at the time, André Maginot, who had this defense project adopted by Parliament in 1930. After the trauma of the First World War, the aim was
Detail of the decoration of the chariot found in Pompeii • PHOTO BY HANDOUT / POMPEI ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK / AFP In Italy, the ancient remains are not confined to the walls of Pompeii. A few hundred meters north of the archaeological park of the city buried by an eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. BC,
Al Capone (January 17, 1899 in the borough of Brooklyn in New York, United States – January 25, 1947 in Miami Beach, Florida, United States), whose real name is Alphonse Gabriel Capone (or in Italian Alfonso Capone) and nicknamed “Scarface” (the scarred one), is the most famous of the gangsters 20th