In 1972, in the midst of the conflict between Republicans and Unionists , the number of victims far exceeded that of the previous year. Fourteen took place on January 30 in Londonderry, which is regarded as one of the events - the Bloody Sunday – key in the conflict, since it pushed even more men
Largely from an overly literal reading of the sources, but also of the use that has been made of these texts in art and contemporary popular culture, especially in the cinema. The works referring to the lives of the emperors, from Suetonius to Tacitus, Dion Cassius or the authors of the Augusta Hist
The Siesta (detail), by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. 1868 • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS At Vth century BC. J.-C., the Ionian philosopher Diagoras de Melos assured that it was better to die than to succumb to the charms of opium, thus alerting to a now proven danger to health:drug addiction. His warnings, however
At the end of the Second World War, two distinct blocs clashed. The United States and the USSR enter the “Cold War”. This conflict will last throughout the second half of the XXe century, until the fall of the USSR. The intensity of this conflict is not uniform over time:strong tensions exist betwee