At the end of the Great War, an international peacekeeping organization was created to prevent a new world conflict:the League of Nations (LN) was created in 1919. The outbreak of the Second World War highlights the failure of the League of Nations and its inability to ensure peace in the world. But
“War is too serious a matter to be left in the hands of the military” . The ingenious phrase pronounced by the former prime minister of the French Third Republic, Georges Clemenceau, has come true many times throughout history with fudges such as the charge of the Light Brigade, the landing at the B
Representation of a bison in the Spanish cave of Altamira • ISTOCKPHOTO It was too incredible to be true:“The Altamira painters technique includes the following elements:linear perspective, aerial perspective, colors diluted in water or grease, brush. Could Paleolithic people have painted these
In 1917, in a park outside Yale University, a young American soldier, Robert Conroy, who had enlisted in the army after his country declared war on Germany, saw a small , hungry puppy roaming around. The soldier took pity on the puppy and adopted it, naming it Stubby. Conroy took Stubby with him