We finish the first entry of this series dedicated to the succession of Alfonso IX of León pointing out that in 1218 the Leonese monarch approved the ascent to the Castilian throne of his son Fernando III, but that did not mean at all that he was willing to allow that Ferdinand also succeed him on t
A problem that has always been with us is the amount of garbage we generate, its removal, storage and destruction or recycling. Well, this problem already had it in the cities of Antiquity. Even with the revolutionary sewage network that turned the Tiber into a river sewer and laws that prohibited d
On October 28, 969 AD the great Syrian metropolis of Antioch was freed from the Arab yoke by the Byzantines. The humiliated Arabs of the region then asked for peace. However, the new dynasty ruling Egypt, that of the Fatimids, had a different opinion and declared a holy war against the infidel Greek
I am not going to list all the contraceptive methods that women have suffered in history. And I say suffered, because throughout history man has decided even the most intimate of a woman. The easiest and most frequent was the introduction of foreign bodies in the uterus to plug the seminal fluid. In