If today, being informed to the second and even directly contemplating the events that occur, there are several versions of the same reality, what to say about what happened centuries ago. It is difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff (the reality of the myth or legend) when the sources are s
As the Latin saying goes De gustibus non est disputandum ” (“there is no dispute about tastes” or its equivalent “there is nothing written about tastes”), it is difficult and risky to qualify a product as the best, and even more so when the product we are talking about is wine… Antiquity. So, in the
In the last days of the Byzantine Empire, there were persons who played a role indulgently miserable and even treacherous. One of these persons who had an absolutely disastrous role was Georgios Amiroutzis. The closest, chronologically, testimony about him was that of the also pro-Turkish Critobu
The tanker Lesvos was launched in 1942 as the USS Boone County. It was an LST 1 (Landing Ship Tanks) type tanker. The vessel had a displacement, with a full load, of about 4,000 tons. It was 100 m long and had a maximum speed of only 12 knots. It was armed with 40 and 20 mm anti-aircraft guns His