The Roman Emperor Constantine II could very well have gone down in history because of, among other things, the mess of names he had:his name was Heraclius Constantinus Augustus, although he also appears as Flavius Constantinus Augustus and in his time he was known as Kōnstantinos Pogonatos, i.e. C
GRIBEAUVAL (Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de) (Amiens, 171.5 - Paris, 1789.) Master gunner. Enlisted in the Royal Artillery Regiment in1735, this officer specialized in ballistic research and carried out comparative studies on the organization and firepower of various European armies.His report concerning
This is not the only case, throughout history there are reports of islands that have disappeared due to natural causes and catastrophes, as well as ghost islands placed on maps by zealous cartographers to unmask plagiarism and unfair competition. However, the case that concerns us here has certain c
Margaret Brown, known as the “unsinkable Molly”, in 1909. • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Despite its 1,500 deaths, the tragedy of the Titanic was not the most terrible in the history of shipwrecks. For example, those of two German ships sunk by Soviet submarines in 1945, the Wilhelm Gustloff (which was tra