To the question that we have all been asked at some time when we were children, what do you want to be when you grow up? In my day, the answer was firefighter or soccer player. If when your child is asked this question they answer:ALIPILARIUS, I advise you to try to get that idea out of his hea
On May 12, 1935, the coffin with Józef Piłsudskis body was laid to rest in the crypt of St. Leonard in Wawel. Up to a quarter of a million people took part in the funeral ceremonies that lasted several hours. However, it was not only in Krakow that the Marshal was bid farewell. What homage has the r
In other posts we have talked about the castrati, the eunuchs in China (which we call the patron saint of the eunuchs), today we have the eunuchs in Al-Andalus. The fate of the «infidels » captured in battles or raids by the armies of Al-Andalus was enslaved or joined the army as mercenaries. Among
Alfonso VIII (the Noble and the Navas) he was king of Castile. He was born in 1155, who was the son of Sancho III, whom he succeeded in 1158, under the tutelage of Gutiérrez de Castro; but the Lara managed to take away his guardianship, which led to a civil war between both sides; the King of Navarr