A diamond is a womans best friend? Not at all. Only a few dozen years ago, no one knew this eternal truth, and the ladies did not associate shiny stones with an engagement. People have always valued diamonds. As early as in the first century AD, Pliny the Elder wrote of them that they had the gr
Medieval Poles were often called beer lovers. The Anglo-Saxons, however, were able to consume many more liters of the brewery. Painting by Adriaen Brouwer Drunken Peasants in the Tavern. If we were to look at the map showing the medieval zones of influence of beer, the most popular drink at that
In fictional stories, the heroes and princes are all young, heroic and handsome, always in good health, even during a plague, but in reality, things arent always like that. There have been kings, princes and war heroes who may have been young, but they werent handsome or were not in good health. T
Lisa Montgomery became the first woman to be executed (by lethal injection) by the US federal authorities, after 70 years, when Wednesday 13/1 dawned in Greece. A day earlier, Judge James Hanlon had ordered an adjournment, with her lawyers arguing that her mental health is so far removed from realit