Searching for a lost castaway on the high seas is an arduous and often frustrating task. Unless the search area can be greatly narrowed, the task can take so long that probably when it is finally located -if it is possible to do so- it will already be dead of hypothermia, dehydration or any other ca
Almost all towns have a book that tells their story in the key of an epic. The Aeneid , commissioned by Augustus to Virgil to narrate a glorious origin of Rome, is perhaps the quintessential example, but there are others and we have seen some here, such as the Secret history of the Mongols . In Sp
David, The Sabines, 1799 Jacques-Louis David is a French history painter claiming the heritage of his predecessor Nicolas Poussin. Member of the Academy of Fine Arts, Jacques-Louis David was born on August 30, 1748. He became a renowned painter at the age of thirty-seven with his work Le Serment d
If we were to ask about a metal alloy used since the beginning of history, the unanimous answer would be, most certainly, bronze. And, indeed, this combination of copper and tin gives name to an entire period of Prehistory, so we could consider it perhaps the most important until the appearance of o