Mid-late 19th century. The European population was facing, perhaps for the first time, the forebodings of Malthuss theory which said that food production would not increase in the same proportion as the population, which meant that, in fact, there would be in the short term term serious supply probl
In the photo you can see the site of Mómtskïy Kámen near the village of Pachni. All residents of Pachni know the history of this rock. As the old men of the village say, local girls committed suicide from this rock to escape the Turks. During the years of the Ottoman Empire, the Turks had come to
The battle on Mount Vesuvius was the first major conflict of the so-called Third Slave War. It was also the first clash of Spartacus rebels with regular Roman troops in which the brilliant Thrax showed his strategic genius. Spartacus, according to Plutarch, was a Thrax descended from the race of the
The abolition of the death penalty in France on September 18, 1981 is the culmination of a long process that began at the beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1980s, the debate on capital punishment had been periodically revived in France, the last European nation to maintain it. Abolition being