Unquestionably the largest wall in the world is the famous Great Wall of China. In Europe there is another very similar, although considerably smaller, the Wall of Ragusa. And among those that no longer exist are the Walls of Benin, in Africa, which were once the longest structure built by Man. Ind
The squalid streets of Whitechapel and Spitalfields were often the only home of women who could not afford the few pennies a room in the doss-houses cost. pensions of very low category, with dirty and collective rooms that had to be paid for in advance. At the time of their deaths, Mary Ann Nichols
Russian troops held the islands of Khiouma and Sarema, which command the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, until October 19.The garrison of the Soviet base on the Finnish peninsula of Hanko (west of Helsinki), which was surrounded , resisted the enemy for five months and was also successfully evacuat
Portrait of Ashoka Ashoka is the third emperor of the Mauryan dynasty, which, between the IVth and the IIth century BC. BC, dominated almost all of India, Pakistan and part of Afghanistan. With skill, and thanks to their military power, the Mauryas gradually spread from Pataliputra, the capital