The pagophagy It is a disease that causes the sufferer to eat only ice, snow and frozen drinks. Although it is not very clear what causes it, there are actually multiple possible causes, it is considered one of the variants of Pica, an eating disorder that consists of the irresistible desire to eat
Raymond Ames Spruance (July 3, 1886 - December 13, 1969) was a United States Navy Admiral during World War II. The architect of American victory at the Battle of Midway, he led many of the offensives in the Pacific campaign. Youth Born in Baltimore, Spruance graduated from the Naval Academy in Anna
Latin American caudillismo was a largely authoritarian way of doing politics that emerged after the wars for independence in Latin America. By Me. Cláudio FernandesAs in the so-called Republic of Oligarchs (1894-1930), in Brazil, there was the figure of the “colonel”, that is, the local political
The Vikings , led by the explorer Leif Erikson, are considered today as the first Europeans to have discovered America, five hundred years before Christopher Columbus. Around the year 1000, Icelanders established in Greenland indeed approached the shores of North America, naming the lands they encou