Adolf Hitlers father, Alois Hitler, had another son, who even bore the same name as him. The younger Alois Hitler had immigrated to Britain and eventually ended up, at one point, working in a hotel in Dublin. There he met a 17-year-old girl, Bridget Dowling. The couple had a son, William Patrick
Greece and Turkey (Ottoman Empire) clashed, unofficially, several times after the revolution of 1821. The great crisis finally broke out with the explosion of the new Cretan revolution, in 1896. In February 1897, the Greek government sent to Crete a mixed detachment under the command of colonel Timo
Today the sexuality of each one is not news, or should not be, but in the 19th century the sexuality of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States and the first for the Republican Party, it would have been a major scandal. This post is not intended to judge the US President, only to t
Can you imagine a pig, a cow or a wild animal being put on trial? And I am not talking about a pantomime, but about a trial with all the procedural guarantees, even with his defense attorney, logically ex officio. Yes, until practically the 19th century it was common practice to accuse an animal of