Breathtakingly beautiful, famous and ... eminently unhappy. Some historians call her the second Trojan Helena. You can read about the fate of the queen, who was to lead to the fall of the Jagiellonian dynasty, in Magdalena Niedźwieckas novel Barbara Radziwiłłówna, which you can win in our competitio
Everything should be done with the pump. Flowers, a diamond gleaming in the candlelight, and kneeling down on one knee. And of course a touching speech. Meanwhile, he did everything upside down and then disappeared for a few days. Was that the worst proposal of the century? It was probably the m
On 23 May 1618, some representatives of the Bohemian aristocracy, galvanized by Count Thurn, they broke into the royal palace in Prague, intending to ask the sovereign, Ferdinand II to revoke the order that authorized the destruction of all non-Catholic sacred buildings, built in the territories o
On October 7, 1944, the largest prisoner revolt in the history of the camp took place in Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Jews from the Sonderkommando set fire to and seriously damaged one of the crematoriums, and attacked the SS men with stones, axes and hammers. Some insurgents managed to get out of the ba