What European nations attempted to colonize North America?

Why have Roman buildings stood for more than 2,000 years?

For all the places in the world where the caligae have stepped (sandals of the Roman legionnaires) today you can find bridges, aqueducts, amphitheaters... and many other constructions that have stood for more than 2,000 years. Have you ever wondered what the secret of the solidity of these witnesses

Hydna and Artemis, the protagonists of the Battle of Salamis

In 480 BC, before the advance of the Persian king Xerxes towards Greece, the Athenian general Themistocles He proposed that the Greek alliance block the passage of the Persian army in the narrow gorge of Thermopylae and, at the same time, immobilize the enemy fleet in the Strait of Artemis. In this

Political violence during the Spanish Transition:the Atocha massacre.

The Spanish transition, understood as the period between the death of Franco on November 20, 1975 and the electoral victory of the PSOE on October 28, 1982, was characterized by the transition from a dictatorial political regime to a democratic one. This course was channeled through pacts and negoti

The succession of Alfonso IX of León (II). Candidates for the throne

We finish the first entry of this series dedicated to the succession of Alfonso IX of León pointing out that in 1218 the Leonese monarch approved the ascent to the Castilian throne of his son Fernando III, but that did not mean at all that he was willing to allow that Ferdinand also succeed him on t