Some time ago we published an article in which we told how the Spanish Isabel de Barreto was the first female admiral in history. In reality, there was at least one precedent that, yes, had the advantage of being queen over her and therefore the power to personally lead a squadron:Artemisia I, Caria
rifleman av.1809 In 1804, the uniform of the carabinieri was still that of 1791, with the exception of the fur cap, which was twenty centimeters higher. Their name came from the rifle with which they were always armed. They wore the habit à la française with scarlet and rotating fringed epaulett
Restitution in synthetic image of the boat in its environment • INSTITITE FOR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY AND NORDIC MEDIA LAB A Viking ship in the open Norwegian countryside:this is the spectacle that delighted the inhabitants of the town of Gjellestad, near Halden, in the south-east of the country. Norw
Until the first half of the 19th century, the methods used for the patient to endure the pain or not move during a surgical intervention were simple and brutal . Very fast operations; alcoholic beverages, bindings with ropes or straps; studs of leather, wood or bullets to bite into. Sometimes anothe