June 13, not 16, rebels marched from Essex and Kent towards London; June 14, mob sacked Canterbury in southern rebellion; June 15, king and council met with Essex rebels at Mile End in eastern outskirts of London, who forced acceptance of most of 40-article petition; meanwhile mob under Kent rebel Wat Tyler burned much of Southwark district south of London Bridge; next day (June 16), Tyler met Richard and was killed in dispute there, after which peasants retreated
The oregano and the gorse and the one-fired garlic of the wort herb is a great spell. The evil eye. Basque Country. The eyes. The heat. The look, the one single look that enters a body and makes it sick. Which does not count, person, age, time, space, place. Which has no mercy. They say that the y
After being abducted to Israel, he argued that he was only a rank-and-file official of the Third Reich, from whom - by mistake and cowardice of others - a scapegoat was made. He did not plead guilty to the end. Who, according to Adolf Eichmann and his German defender, was responsible for the deaths
He drove border posts tens of kilometers deep into the mighty Reich. He took the most wonderful city in the East. He conquered the Czech Republic, Moravia, Slovakia and even Prussia. He had momentum. Like no one before him and no one in the following centuries. 1. Kyiv If in medieval Poland ch
Portrait of a seated lady with a handkerchief and a little dog, by Francesco Montemezzano The use of the handkerchief as we know it today, or to blow your nose in case of a cold or sudden sneezing, is surprisingly recent. In fact, it dates back only to the last century, when hygiene rules beca