Convicts are executed with the guillotine during the French Revolution. Vintage engraving. • WIKIMEDIACOMMONS “The deputy Guillotin / In medicine / Very expert and very clever, / Made a machine / To purge the French body / Of all the people with projects / It’s the guillotine, oh ford! / Its the
It is not easy to read her name, especially if the original spelling is respected:Guðríðr Þorbjarnardóttir. But she is an interesting character for several reasons. First, the fact that she is a woman that the Viking sagas speak of without mythological implications. Second, having been the mother
William (Billy) Edward Singh was of Chinese descent. He was born in Australia in 1886 and early on he showed that he was an amazing shooter by overcoming the racist stereotypes of the time and achieving great victories in shooting competitions. On 24 October 1914 he was commissioned into the 5th Aus
The Habsburg Empire was Frances most persistent adversary from 1792 to 1815. A little-known aspect of its involvement in these wars concerns its ordinary national guards. In the Austro-Hungarian Empire there was a multi-ethnic state. In order to maintain his coherence he had to follow a particularly