It said Benjamin Franklin «nothing is certain, except death and taxes «; of the first nothing to add and of the second... this article to confirm that Franklin was absolutely right. We are going to look at some of the taxes that the Romans had to bear in times of the Republic and the Empire. Some ex
The year 1898 has remained as a benchmark for the loss of the last remains of the Spanish overseas empire. The Spanish-Cuban-American War was the conflict that caused this disappearance, but the origins of this conflict go back years and arose in Cuba. The first confrontation between Cubans and Sp
The Greek fever experienced by the USA in the 1820s and the contribution of American Philhellenism to the Greek Revolution have already been highlighted. What is less known is that the struggle of the Greeks was also supported by the African American community and that an African American fought bra
Fabergé eggs are the most expensive Easter eggs in the world. Only a few dozen of them were created. Each of them is worth from several hundred thousand to even one hundred million dollars. The famous Easter eggs were produced in the studio of the legendary Carl Fabergé, the tsarist jeweler, desig