The last great manifestation in Europe of the Plague dated 1720 and remains known as the “plague of Marseille . It will cause 40,000 victims out of the 75,000 inhabitants of the Marseille city, which is then experiencing its twentieth epidemic of this disease since antiquity. In the 15th century, th
At the beginning of the 4th century BC. the Greeks of Sicily were fighting once more against their ancient rivals, the Carthaginians. Dionysius of Syracuse, this time wished to prepare the Greek forces as best as possible. But in addition to the classic weapons, the engineers of Dionysius invented a
On January 10, 1457, justice was administered in the courts of Savigny according to the following facts:“On the Tuesday before Christmas, recently past, a sow and her six piglets, currently imprisoned, were caught in flagrante delicto of murder and manslaughter in the person of Juan Martín… ” The j
We already talked about Hennig Brand at the time. , a German merchant who was enabled by his wifes dowry to devote his time to the noble art of alchemy to get gold by distilling urine… in the end he discovered phosphorus. Today we return to the fray with another enlightened who intended to turn whea