James Cook (October 27, 1728, Marton (Yorkshire, United Kingdom) - February 14, 1779, Hawaii) was a British navigator, explorer and cartographer. Rising to the rank of Captain of the British Royal Navy, he made three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during which he was the first European to land on the
Destiny is destiny and no matter how much you try to avoid death, it always arrives faithful to its appointment. There is a famous Persian tale of the man who, to avoid meeting Death, fled from Baghdad to another city and found her there, surprised that she was not in the city from which she came be
The old France is subject to an economic system with agricultural preponderance. The vast majority of the 25 million inhabitants of the kingdom of Louis XVI live off the land. However, this peasant France has a subsistence economy with low productivity, linked to the vagaries of time and family demo
If all the cuisine of ancient Greece was characterized by its frugality, derived from the difficult conditions of its agriculture, Spartan gastronomy did not have a reputation for precisely the opposite but for being even stricter and more sober. In fact, some of their dishes were so unpleasant for