Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets In December 1154, Henry of Anjou was crowned at Westminster as King of England under the name of Henry II, thus giving rise to the Plantagenet dynasty, which would rule England and part of France for more than three hundred years. He was accompanied by his
Our archenemy of today was not a great military leader, or an admired and praised hero, he was a young warrior, one more element within the fierce resistance that a single city opposed to the best oiled military machine of the ancient world:Numancia . Serve this article as a tribute not only to the
Before getting into the pink gossip of the Sumerians, it should be noted that the marriage between the two rivers had no religious connotations. It is true that the act was presided over by a priest, but that was done to collect the corresponding tax (all religions pass the brush, right?) and to att
Its back to being Dictator! At least thats pretty much what you have to come to when you look around Europe and the world today. How else are we going to explain ourselves to would-be saviors of the people like Viktor Orbán in Hungary or Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey? The drive for absolute power c