According to William Thorne, chronicler of the abbey of Saint Augustine in Canterbury, after the English prince Richard of Bordeaux came to the world in that city on January 6, 1367, A few days later the baptism of the newborn was celebrated, attended by three characters representing the Magi (the c
This year 2019 marks five hundred years since the beginning of a great adventure that led to the transformation of the world in every way:the first circumnavigation of the planet, begun by the Portuguese at the service of the Spanish crown Ferdinand Magellan and culminated by the Spanish Juan Sebast
We all know the feat of Thermopylae where Leonidas and his 300 Spartans of his – in addition to the 700 Thespians and 400 Thebans forgotten – they faced the innumerable army of Xerxes - innumerable because the numbers range from 100,000 to a million - but there was another similar feat that took p
The story of Rani Lakshmi Bai She could well have been the princess from a fairy tale with her Prince Charming, but the ups and downs of life and the British colonization of India turned her into a warrior. Manikarnika or Manu , which was her real name, she lost her mother when she was four years o