A Polish slave is taken to Spain, where he regains his freedom and under the name Mudżāhid takes over Ibiza. Such a story could have happened in the times of Bolesław the Brave. Where did the Poles on the Iberian Peninsula come from? They were among the Slavic slaves who in the Middle Ages were an
Portrait of Jean-Paul Marat. Did the revolutionary have Hodgkins disease? We all know the image of Jean-Paul Marat spilled in the bathtub after the dagger blow inflicted on him by Charlotte Corday just as Jacques-Louis David handed it down to us in a painting that has become the most famous
He started his career as a squire and ended up on the royal throne. As a child, he wanted to be treated like a man. Nothing was given him by birth except for political talent and strategic sense. He had to fight for everything else, and always hunt for opportunities. However, being a compulsive and
The war is terrible because the closest ones are killed in it:fathers, husbands, sons and brothers. Sometimes a mournful telegram sent by the commander comes to the house of a fallen soldier, sometimes there is no information about the missing soldier for many years. It also happens that a mother re