Detail of the Huei Tzompantli, an Aztec skull tower dating from the end of the 15th century, discovered in Mexico City • AFP These are 119 new human skulls, impaled horizontally, which have just been exhumed in the basement of Mexico City, the ancient capital of the Aztecs, Tenochtitlán, which w
One of the most curious plans designed by the German military in the Second World War -and one of the least known as well, by not carrying it out- was the Unternehmen Grün, that is, the Operation Green . The name alludes to the project of invasion of Ireland taking advantage of the circumstances of
Nikita Sergeïevitch Khrushchev, (April 17, 1894 - September 11, 1971), (in Cyrillique никита сергевич хрущв, pronounced [nʲɪˈkʲitə sʲɪˈrgʲejɪtʃʲ xruˈʃʲ:of) is a Soviet statesman of Ukrainian origin, who gradually asserted himself as the main manager of the USSR between Stalins death (March 5, 1953)
Europe in the 19thth century, saw the appearance of nationalisms and the creation of nation-states (as in Germany in 1871, or in Italy, where we then speak of the Risorgimento Italian). This leads to a claim for the nations independence. A new European order has been put in place:a system of allianc