Almost every day, and especially in the summer months, we have news, many of them with tragic endings, of African immigrants trying to access the Iberian Peninsula through the sea, with small boats that can barely withstand the waves and in which they travel crowded men, women and children, or tryin
A soldiers honor, incredible courage and a suicidal mission. In September 1940, Witold Pilecki is sent to KL Auschwitz. After crossing the gates of the camp, it becomes number 4859. The uniform of a Polish officer is voluntarily changed into a camp striped uniform to fulfill his patriotic mission.
On March 30, 1870, a group of foreign tourists, among them the British Lord Mancaster and his wife, the secretaries of the British and Italian embassies and their companions were kidnapped by a gang of Arvanitaki robbers. The robbers demanded a £25,000 ransom and amnesty to free their prisoners.
When he was born, on February 26, 1938, his parents gave him the name of the ancient, great king of Salamis, Evagoras. And indeed young Evagoras fully justified his name. He wrote:My blessed godfather would have known something about my future to give me the name of the king of Salamis. So I too had