Service in the Roman legion tempted with steady wages and decent retirement. Often, however, it also meant a quarter of a century of forced celibacy into a military camp in a deep province. How to deal with boredom, when military expeditions, rape and robbery are rare attractions? During the imp
Months spent in ice hell. A murderous fight against low temperatures, hunger, diseases and the monotony of travel. Most of the daredevils trying to reach this most inaccessible place on earth died. He not only conquered the pole but survived. Good morning, dear Lindstrom. Have you prepared some
The death of Julius Caesar in a painting The death of Julius Caesar it was one of the epochal events in the millenary history of Rome. The dictator, now strongly disliked by most of the members of the Senate, fell pierced by over 40 stabs on the Ides of March in 44 BC Among the conspirator
In the aftermath of the Second World War on the European continent, the Battle of Berlin marks the great culmination in the fall of the Third Reich. For the Soviet Union, the fall, after four years of hard fighting, of the capital of Adolf Hitler, marked the end of a long and very hard war of surviv