On July 14, 1789, a Parisian revolutionary crowd captured the Bastille (a medieval fortress and armory used as a royal prison), which, although not very significant as a prison at the time, became the symbolic act for the overthrow of royal tyranny and oppression and remains the pivotal date to which all events of the Revolution relate.
Suspicions of treason, because ... every survivor is suspect. The mother was pronounced dead because of a simple mistake and only found years later. The camp was decommissioned long ago, but the numbers tattooed on their hands marked the prisoners for life. Józef Paczyński, born in 1920. Prisone
Today we have more than enough archaeological evidence to be able to affirm that the human being has been massacring his neighbor since he came down from the trees and started throwing stones. We have found human remains from the Paleolithic riddled with arrows or stones, and even the famous Ötzi ,
At the time of Celtic Gaul, the Arverni were a prosperous and influential people occupying the current region of Auvergne. They are mainly known by the general public through the figure of Vercingetorix and the famous Asterix comic strip in which the eponymous hero goes in search of the shield of th
After the death of Suleiman the Magnificent, the new Sultan Selim II, immediately after ascending to the throne, decided to campaign against the Venetian-occupied Cyprus. On July 1, 1570, the Turkish armada rushed to the bay of Paphos and the next day the Turkish troops landed in Limassol, without e