The Feast of Pentecost brings together, with different but related motives, two of the three great monotheisms:Christianity and Judaism . The Christian feast of Pentecost is dedicated to the Holy Spirit , certainly the most enigmatic and the most difficult to define of the persons of the Trinity. Be
Knight Siegfried is famous for having triumphed over a dragon and fought two Burgundian chiefs of the Nibelung family, a family from which he also stole his treasure, a magic sword and the tarnkappe , a cape that makes the wearer invisible. Subsequently, Siegfried marries the beautiful Kriemhild bef
Moses is a character from the Bible, recognized by Jews, Christians and Muslims. Prophet of the Old Testament, he brought the Hebrews out of Egypt and took them to the Promised Land and received from Yavhé the Ten Commandments, the basis of the divine Law of the Hebrews. Apart from the biblical text
The Arthurian Legend (or Arthurian Cycle) is a series of works in several languages written from the 11th century and which tells the story of King Arthur and his knights. Sung from the VIe century in epics in the Welsh language, it culminates as early as the ninthth century to a prolific literar
Egyptian Mythology occupied a central place in the history of ancient Egypt, the Egyptian gods exerting a strong influence on society and daily life in the land of the pharaohs. Very sophisticated, the Egyptian pantheon is one of the mythologies including the most deities. For over 3,000 years, the
Celebrated on one of the Sundays between March 22 and April 25, Easter is a Christian tradition that symbolically celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Although it has a different meaning, it is common to another great religion:Judaism. But Easter is also a holiday awaited by many atheists,
In the Middle Ages, the Cathars , who are also referred to as Albigensians, belonged to a Manichaean Christian movement widespread in the south-west of France. The birth of Catharism or Catharisms is probably in the middle of the 12th century, at the time when the pope placed his authority at the he
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are the literary heroes of the Arthurian cycle whose success was immense from the Middle Ages. King Arthur brews many myths, the first of which is himself. King-knight, defender of his kingdom against the Saxons, owner of the legendary Excalibur, protec
March 25, 1957 the representatives of the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg sign the Treaty of Rome establishing the European Economic Community (EEC ). A key symbolic episode in European construction, this treaty is the result of efforts already mad
January 1, 1973, the European Economic Community expands from six to nine countries with the accession of Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom. To join the EEC, these countries had to meet two criteria:to belong to the European continent and to obtain the agreement of all the member countries. H
The Elysée Treaty, signed on January 22, 1963 between De Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer is the basis of the French-German friendship . Whether for the signing of a cooperation treaty, exchange programs or commemorations, France and Germany have not lacked opportunities to renew this promise of peaceful
Medieval Spain, whether Al Andalus or that of the Christian kingdoms, is considered the privileged place ( with Sicily) of the transmission of Greek knowledge to the Latin West. The controversy surrounding the work of S. Gouguenheim, Aristote au Mont Saint-Michel (2008), however, showed that this qu
It all starts with the disappearance of an individual, either naturally or by fatality or extreme case an unnatural death . In the latter case, it is necessary to discover the author of this crime, to attribute the good sentence to him during a trial and it is therefore necessary to know the bodily
Between the 1840s and 1880s, the use of photography as newspaper illustration is indirect and slow due to poor print quality. Technical developments and half-tone will allow the transition from drawing to the integration of photography in the printing process. This press illustration is appreciated
British naturalist, Charles Darwin is certainly not the inventor of the theory of evolution but his work on theorigin of species and his theory of natural selection gave a new measure to evolutionism. It becomes the avatar of this scientific theory which considers that species evolve over time and g
In modern times, from the late 15th to the late 18th century, the fishing activity represents a fundamental challenge for coastal populations. It may be, as with shore fishing, self-sustaining through a gathering economy. But it is also a question, through larger fisheries, of earning money, and bu
Measuring 263 meters in length and weighing over 65,000 tons, the battleship Yamato , star of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the largest battleship ever built. The Second World War could have been the peak of these giants, it was their cemetery. This was the case for the famous Yamato, sunk in Apri
The Graf Spee was a pocket battleship of the German Navy, in service from 1936 and scuttled at the end of 1939. Belonging to a new category of warships, it was the second of this class (after the Deutschland , renamed Lützow , and before Admiral Scheer ), launched in 1934 in Wilhemshaven. This flag
Dunkirk Evacuation is a military operation known as Operation Dynamo , carried out from May 27 to June 4, 1940, at the start of the Second World War, to evacuate to England the British and French troops caught in the pincers in the Dunkirk pocket by the German armored divisions. In record time, the
Commissioned in 1940, the Bismarck was a heavy battleship of the German Navy. It bears the name of the famous chancellor behind the creation of the German Empire at the end of the 19th century. In May 1941, during a blitzkrieg in the northern Atlantic Ocean, Bismarck sank HMS Hood , an English batt
Surely the reader remembers that article that we dedicated to the Challenge of Bordeaux, framed in the context of the wars that the French Carlos de Anjou and the Aragonese Pedro III maintained for the throne of the Kingdom of Sicily, which finally remained in Aragonese hands. But the rivalry contin
SU-76, SU-76M and variants country USSR Type: light self-propelled gun. Crew: 4 men (gunner commander, outfitter, driver). Armament :a 76.2 mm Model 1942 (215-3) gun. Shielding: minimum 10mm; max 35mm. Dimensions: length (cannon included):5 m; width: 2 74m: height 2.20 m. Weight in combat o
Among the many painters who worked in the Hellenic world during the fourth century B.C. there are two that stand out for the fame of their works, and also for their friendship and rivalry. They are Apelles and Protogenes. Apelles was Alexander the Greats favorite painter whom, according to sources,
As soon as the fall of the Girondins was known, the province, in a vast movement of protest, rose up against the growing hegemony of the Montagnards and of Paris. The Girondin deputies who were able to escape triggered the federalist insurrection in many departments. The assassination of Marat by Ch