On December 31, 1823 the pasades Omer Bryonis and Kioutachis solved the siege of Messolonghi which had withstood all their attacks. The Turks moved towards Agrinio – then Vrahori. The Turks were facing a serious lack of supplies and were in a hurry to cross the Acheloos which due to the season was f
According to popular superstition, it is good luck to be hit, usually on the head or shoulders, by a pigeons intestinal waste. Well, the explanation may have to be found in the election of Pope Fabian in 236. After the death of Pope Antero, martyred by Emperor Maximin Thracian who had reactivated t
This article develops the history of Germany before 1949 and after 1990 (see German Democratic Republic; Federal Republic of Germany). The German architect Johann Balthasar Neumann designed the Residenz, a baroque palace in Wurzburg (Germany), for the prince or bishop of this city. Completed in 1746
Two high floors, even several rooms and three hundred and eighty square meters of space. Were it not for the daylight problems typical of a mansion of this era, even todays millionaires would not despise such a home. It is very possible that this architectural miracle was built when the old gods sti