This new entry represents a very important symbolic milestone, as it reaches the number of three hundred articles written on the blog. That is why I have chosen a theme that is also symbolic:the battle of Tamarón, which took place in the year 1037 and which constitutes the final episode of my second
During the Civil War there were numerous border skirmishes between the Hellenic Army (HE) and Albanian, Bulgarian and Yugoslav forces. One of the most important incidents took place in the area of Koutsoubey Pella, in border Greece – Yugoslavia. This particular episode developed into a rea
At some point in our lives we are all Pre-Raphaelites . Without suspecting it, we imitate that same cliché of silly adoration towards the languid and archaic beauty that emanates from the paintings of the somewhat eccentric artists who altered Victorian England. Deliberately mystical, medieval, drea
When Pius XII opened the Vatican underground to archaeologists in 1940, he was not at all sure what they would find. Doubts as to whether the tomb of the first pope - the apostle Peter - was actually located under the basilica - had been growing for centuries. What was the end of the unusual investi