He went down in history as a playboy, serially deflowering court ladies, and at the same time - an intolerant fundamentalist whipping himself as a penance and attending two masses a day. His reign was a series of wars (partly due to him). However, did Sigismund III Vasa really deserve the black lege
George Parrot , known as Big Nose George because of his large nasal appendage, he was just one more rustler of the many who stole cattle in the Far West of which nothing would have been known if he had not fallen, after his death, into the hands of science . Big Nose George In 1878, tired of th
This is an unknown episode in the history of France. During World War II , 19,000 young French people (men and women), crossed the Pyrenees at the risk of their lives. They voluntarily joined the French Forces Combattantes after several months of internment in Spain in sordid jails. 4 to 5,000 of th
We all know the feat of Thermopylae where Leonidas and his 300 Spartans of his – in addition to the 700 Thespians and 400 Thebans forgotten – they faced the innumerable army of Xerxes - innumerable because the numbers range from 100,000 to a million - but there was another similar feat that took p