Some time ago we dedicated an article to the pigs that in ancient times were used to scare war elephants, according to references by Pliny the Elder, Procopius of Caesarea and Claudius Eliano (even engulfed in flames, according to Polyenus). So if we talk about the use of pigs against ships in World
Probably one of the strangest and most attractive places in medieval Spain is a mountainous massif located in the extreme north-west of the province of Burgos, almost bordering the north of Palencia and the south of Cantabria. A flat place from which a rare orographic mass of 1,377 meters of altitud
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger de Saint-Exupéry, born on 29 June 1900 in Lyon and disappeared in flight on July 31, 1944 at sea, off Marseille, Mort pour la France, is a French writer, poet, aviator and reporter. Born into a family descended from the French nobility, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry spe
The Second World War allowed the Soviet Army to take most of Central and Eastern Europe and gradually, all the states liberated by the Red Army fell into a regime of peoples democracy (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, the GDR). Until 1989, people tried in vain to emancipate themse