Between 1791 and 1804, and inspired by the sorcerers Boukman and Mackandal, the ringleaders François Dominique Toussaint-Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines led the Haitian revolution against the slave system established in the French colony of Saint-Domingue , which would culminate in the prohib
In the field of inventions and patents there have always been disputes over the paternity of certain inventions. In this case, if Antonio Meucci had 10 dollars, your cell phone would be a telephone . Italian inventor Antonio Meucci (1808 – 1889) emigrated to New York in 1850 where, after ten years
In 1040, Bulgaria was a province of the Byzantine Empire, after its subjugation by Vasilios Bulgarokdonos. However, this year the noble Petros Deleanos, who had, in theory, become Hellenized, left Constantinople and fled to Belgrade, from where he declared a revolution against the empire, proclaimin
In several blog posts we have been detailing the evolution of the situation in England in the period of the Viking raids and in the reigns of Alfred the Great of Wessex and his daughter Aethelflaed , Lady of the merchants. Today it is time to close the circle with the story of the man who completed