After the First World War, the most important port in Poland, Gdansk, had been left outside the territory of the newly recovered Polish state. Although Poland could use the port, the city of Danzig was 90% populated by Germans and since 1933 the Nazi presence was growing, so using its facilities bec
A BRIEF OVERVIEW The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a locked country in Western Europe, Luxembourg happens to be one of the richest countries in the world. Although it is very small in the area and the least populous country in Europe, the convenient location of Belgum, France and Germany makes
On April 30, 1884, Princess Victoria of Hesse, daughter of the reigning ruler Louis IV, and Prince Louis Battenberg, was married in Darmstadt, the German capital of Hesse. Crowds poured out on the streets of the beautifully decorated city, cheering the young couple and watching the cavalcade of carr
In the thousand-year history of Byzantium, there were no prisons, only dungeons for temporary detention, where the guilty lived until they were tried. The punishment - for punishment or reason - was usually carried out by the executioners, who if you were lucky and didnt cut off your whole head, the