“Fog everywhere. Fog upstream of the river, where it flows between green islets and meadows, fog downstream of the river where it unfolds among the alongside ships and the pollution of the shores of a noble (and dirty) city. The tirade stretched over several paragraphs to describe, in the novel The
As reported by Thucydides in 429 BC during the siege of Plataea, the Spartans, unable to break the Plataean resistance with the use of battering rams and flaming arrows, decided to set fire to the wall and its wooden extension. The Spartans collected a large amount of timber from coniferous tree
Hitler was well aware that the environment and everyday things have the power to shape thoughts. Toys, radio and even a gesture of greeting - anything could become a channel for smuggling ideology. This is what the Third Reich looked like in 100 items. Figures resembling Hitler were the dream of
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets Edward III is probably one of the best kings England has ever had in her history. He won the right to govern when he was barely seventeen years old, he was the initiator of the Hundred Years War, he won the crucial battles of Crécy and Poitiers, he managed