We believe we know everything about the first bishops of Rome, materialized by names in the canon of the mass, by a series of portraits in Saint-Paul-outside-the-Walls and by the “crypt of the popes” in the catacombs. However, this Roman memory is late and largely fictitious. The story only begins i
History remembers Paul von Hindenburg , the second president of the Weimar Republic, as the man who brought the Nazis to power. Even though he was a convinced monarchist, he had accepted the presidency pressured by the conservative parties, when his state of health must have already been seriously d
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The Regency Period began with the abdication of D. Pedro I, in 1831, and lasted until 1840, when the Majority Coup allowed D. Pedro II to assume the throne at the age of 14. The Regency Period it began after D. Pedro I abdicated the Brazilian throne in 1831. As his son could not assume the throne b