It was January 31, 1996 when the biggest Turkish provocation against Greece took place which claimed the lives of three Navy officers and became known as the Imia crisis. The lieutenants Christodoulos Karathanasis and Panagiotis Vlahakos as well as the chief pilot Hector Gialopsos gave their lives i
A ruthless murderer, the greatest enemy of Poles and a faithful agent of His Imperial Majesty. Jakub Szelas participation in the Galician massacre went down in history forever. However, his fate did not end there. The year 1846. Poles are getting ready for another uprising, but they still have u
Revealing the deep ideological and political divisions in France before 1914, the Dreyfus Affair is at the origin of a serious political crisis which, from 1896 to 1899, caused a deep division of public opinion. It all started on October 15, 1894, when artillery captain Alfred Dreyfus, of Alsatian a
Madrids Almudena Cathedral It is due to the interest that María de las Mercedes de Orleans put into its construction. , first wife of King Alfonso XII . After his untimely death, the heartbroken widower wanted to fulfill his wifes wish and stipulated that, as in the case of the Taj Mahal , the cat