Marco Polo's travels demonstrate the interconnectedness of different parts of the world and the cultural exchanges that could occur even in the face of significant geographic and political barriers.
The Crimean War (1853-1856) pitted the tsarist Russia of Nicholas I against the Ottoman Empire of Sultan Abdul-Mejid I supported by France and the British Empire. The expansionist pretensions of Russia towards the East, camouflaged in questions of a religious nature, triggered a bloody war that many
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets The war name of the Roses refers to the dynastic conflict that took place in England between 1455 and 1485 and that confronted the houses of York and Lancaster, rival branches of the Plantagenet dynasty. The name War of the Roses comes from the symbols of b
If Saint Peter was the stone on which the Church was built, Constantine I the Great he could be considered the architect and, above all, the one who financed the construction of the Church. After the celebration of the Council of Nicaea (today Iznik, Turkey) in 325, the foundations and structure of
It was a horrible profile against the sky, that of this monument; especially at night, when there was a little moonlight on those white skulls, or when the evening wind rustled chains and skeletons, and stirred it all up in the shadows Victor Hugo – Notre-Dame de Paris The Montfaucon gibbet, an i