Christmas is an amazing time. We try to be together with our loved ones and, forgetting all our worries, we look to the future with hope. It is a day of love and joy. The war time destroyed a beautiful tradition of family celebration. Already on the first wartime Christmas in 1939, many Polish famil
A cow, a brilliant doctor and a bit of luck - it was enough to make a breakthrough in medicine. The first vaccine was developed in England at the end of the 18th century. The first vaccine in history was designed to fight a disease that had taken its toll on mankind for thousands of years. I am ta
Emma. This first name successful and modern could sometimes make us forget that it already existed in the Middle Ages, worn by many queens. Contrary to what one might think, it is not the diminutive of Emannuelle but a first name in its own right. Immortalized by Madame Bovary, it is worn by several
On July 7, 1930, construction of the Hoover Dam began. Over the next five years, 21,000 people worked to create the largest dam of its time, as well as one of the largest man-made structures ever. Although the construction itself took 5 years, the overall work on it took almost 30 years. Arthur Po