Belatedly, as unfortunately we recently discovered it, we have seen the completion by the Naval History Service (NAS) of an effort that makes available to every internet user the history of the Branch as it is recorded through its tens of thousands of pages Nautical Inspection. Specifically, on t
Demeter was a deity present in Greek religiosity, considered the goddess of agriculture and responsible for the growth of planted grains. Demeter was a deity that was present in the religiosity of the ancient Greeks, worshiped as the goddess of agriculture, being responsible for the growth of plant
Guerrilla warfare is not an invention of our time. Terrible examples of it exist from ancient times... to the present day. In Greece, in recent times, during the approximately 400 years of Turkish rule, a continuous guerilla war was fought in the mountains. In 1808 the Spanish began a fierce guer
The capture of Rhodes, the last Christian bastion of the East, momentarily awakened the pope and the European powers. Again, a Greek contributed to this awakening, Janos Laskaris, a descendant of the Laskarids, the imperial family of Nicaea. Another Laskaris would later play a catalytic role in the