In 1793 royalists in the Vendée region were fiercely fighting loyalist troops at the beginning of the French Revolution. In this civil conflict atrocities against rivals were recorded by both camps. However, what happened during and after the conflict at Le Mans is strongly reminiscent of German ext
If Man has never had too many scruples to make mincemeat of his neighbor in wars, better luck could not be expected for the animals at his service. Dogs, horses, pigeons, bees and pack animals, for example, have participated in the pandemonium of war, just as dolphins have recently joined. But in
The Corinth Canal, which links the gulf of the same name in the northwest of the Peloponnese with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean through a 6.3-kilometre-long waterway, was built at the end of the 19th century, between 1881 and 1893. But the idea was not new, it was several centuries old (even Nero
The Germans Max von Laue and James Franck they received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1914 and 1925 respectively. Von Laue was a recognized opponent of Nazism and Franck was Jewish; so, faced with the possibility that the gold medals of the Nobel prize could reach the hands of the Nazis, they were