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  • Against the Black Legend. Carlos V, neither drunk nor whorehouse

    The sources present a very different reality:far from the A consummate drinker and womanizer who has gone down in history, the Caesar was characterized throughout his life by his sobriety, moderation and extreme chastity beyond what was strictly necessary to ensure the future of his lineage. Caesar

  • Who said February was boring?

    Hispania Our With You at Home. Interview with Javier Gomez, co-editor of Awakening Ferro Editions Tuesday, February 8 7.00pm Zoom (link https://bit.ly/3upogBu · Meeting ID 811 3374 2265) Free attendance with free prior registration here Luis Miguel Romo Chestnut (Our Spain) Javier Gomez Valer

  • Vera Gedroitz, forgotten pioneer of medicine in czarist and revolutionary Russia

    And all thanks to the work of one woman, full of contradictions, which broke all the rules of its time. Despite this, she was ignored by the Europeans and soon forgotten by all. A more ignored and invisible doctor, she participates in that tradition that also prevented us, for example, from seeing t

  • The unexpected rebirth of the Islamic State?

    It is interesting to look for the reasons for such qualifiers: If it has been unexpected, it is to be assumed that since its defeat in 2019, despite the permanence of some armed groups in the territory of the caliphate, the Islamic State was considered to have been defeated, at less militarily, tot

  • Frances Power Cobbe:the determination of a pioneer

    Frances Power Cobbe was born in 1822 to a wealthy Irish family, owning land and with social influence. She spent her first three decades caring for a sick mother and living with a distant and uncaring father, while her older brothers became independent and her cousins ​​stayed at home only for a whi

  • Russia-Ukraine war. Of Russologists and Ukrainians

    Any war, in its traditional (conventional, unconventional, regular, irregular, guerrilla, subversive, revolutionary, etc.) was always analyzed in its “before” (the causes:distant and immediate), its “during” (the war event itself) and its “after” (the effects on the winner, on the loser and on other

  • The Sacred Cenote of Chichen Itza:a trip to the past

    The archaeological site of Chichén Itzá It constitutes one of the maximum representatives of the pre-Hispanic Mayan culture. It reached its splendor during the Terminal Classic (850 AD-1000 AD) and the Early Postclassic (1000 AD-1200 AD)[1] , and is located in the north of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mex

  • The Burial of the Sparrow

    It is not known for sure when it was introduced the sparrow in Cuba . Although the house sparrow (Passer domesticus ) is native to Eurasia and North Africa, its presence on the island of Cuba has already been documented in the Physical-Natural Repertoire of the Island of Cuba published 1865, a work

  • On the other shore of the vinous ponto. Mycenaean mercenaries in Egypt and Anatolia

    The Late Bronze Age (the period between 1600 and 1100 BC) in the eastern Mediterranean was a time of unprecedented contacts . Kings and queens from both sides of the Aegean embarked on diplomatic missions and exchanges of prestigious goods that included objects of gold, silver, copper and tin ingots

  • El Rogui, an antecedent of the Annual disaster

    They say that on the morning of July 22, 1921 , when the captain general of Melilla, General Manuel Fernández Silvestre , present in the Annual camp, had decided to withdraw from the besieged position in what would later become a cruel massacre, his personal friend, the influential Sharif of the Kab

  • 🏆 Winners of the III Desperta Ferro Historical Microessay Contest

    As we must not lose good habits, this 2021 returns the long-awaited III Wake Up Ferro Editions Historical Micro-essay Contest , with which we give you the opportunity to show us your knowledge and expertise as a historian and why not, rub shoulders with the prestigious authors who collaborate with u

  • The Poet and the Spy. The story of Gabriele D'Annunzio

    The Vittoriale degli Italiani It is a monumental palace made up of a complex of buildings and gardens that Gabriele DAnnunzio commissioned from the architect Giancarlo Maroni in 1921 , to celebrate the exploits of the so-called Vate (Prophet) and Italian forces during World War I. There he spent the

  • Cabeza de Vaca, the conqueror who did not conquer anything

    The history of the conquest and colonization of America has large number of surprising events and unique characters, among which the name of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca should appear. However, it represents the paradigm of those who risk everything following a dream , and at the end of their days, th

  • The capture of Fort Douaumont:February 25, 1916

    After the Franco-German War of 1870, which implied for France the loss of Alsace and Lorraine, the French general Raymond Adolphe Sére de Rivières elaborated a plan to defend the new border of the country . Said plan included four strongholds in eastern France:Verdun, Toul, Épinal and Belfort. The c

  • Dueling and fencing in modern Europe (15th-17th centuries)

    Although in the Modern Age weapons traditional swords lost importance on the battlefield, the sword became a symbol of prestige and nobility , since its possession was associated with the upper classes. This behavior was emulated by the lower classes, who wanted to appear higher in status. In this w

  • Othismos in hoplite battle and game theory

    The old controversy around othismos Perhaps the most important debate to understand how to fight in a phalanx of hoplites of the Greek city-states of the archaic and classical era (from the 8th to the 5th century BC) is the reference to the consideration of a compact formation where the rear rows l

  • Marshal Lincoln's last victory (1217)

    The death of King John Landless brought a change radical in the historical course of Angevin England. After almost two years of hard fighting and with the ghost of the Magna Carta still fresh, a nine-year-old boy named Enrique ascended the throne. The future Henry III, was under the watchful eye of

  • Chaim Rumkowski, the Jewish “King” of the Łódź Ghetto

    The German army occupied the Polish city from Łódź on September 8, 1939 , a week after the invasion of Poland began and, with it, the Second World War. Located 120 kilometers southwest of Warsaw, it was the second city in the country by population (almost 700,000) and the most powerful economically,

  • The toxpiro, a rocket for 1898

    The inventor of this artifact, secret for now, He was Manuel Daza Gómez, former Carlist Lieutenant captured in Fortuna —Murcia— in 1874 and since then exiled in Yecla where he lived with his family. Mr. Daza —as the newspapers of the time referred to him— was born in Alhama de Murcia in 1853, studie

  • The Schlieffen Plan:time for conclusions

    Issue status The confrontation between the German and French armies in the first six weeks of the 1914 war has always had a parallel reading based on the German plan, Schlieffen Plan , and the French, Plan XVII, whose interest and study has exceeded the mere warlike description of the Battle of Fran

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