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
The journalist and writer Ramón Pérez de Ayala said that when the scam is huge it already takes a decent name. Name that in the case of the ruse carried out by the Scotsman Gregor MacGregor took the name of Kingdom of Poyais , a fictitious country that never existed and with which he managed to tric
The problem of food conservation was a constant throughout history – we have already seen the conservation of water – until the Frenchman Nicolas Appert In 1804, he devised the first preservation system. This system, described in his book « The art of preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable sub
At the end of the 19th century, the domain of the south-eastern tip of Africa was divided between the British Crown and the Boers or Afrikaners , settlers of Dutch origin, successors of the first Europeans who had colonized the region in the 17th century. In 1886, Queen Victoria –after successive c