The Battle of Fredericksburg (1862), in the midst of the Civil War, faced the troops of the Confederate general Robert Lee and General Ambrose E Burnside of the Union. The Union army suffered a severe defeat with more than 12,000 dead, wounded and prisoners. The Union offensive aimed to cross the
Recently, the yield on the 10-year Greek government bond fell below 1% for the first time in the history of Greece, which is an achievement, after the adventures of the last decade, when the ten-year bond yield reached 36.5%. This reminds us of the Independence loans, the first ones contracted by Gr
Looking back, in this case to Antiquity, on too many occasions we can say that Nihil novum sub sole (Nothing new under the sun), because today we have one more example:brushes to remove lint (or anything else) from clothes. The Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus , who lived around 600 BC, observed
Thanks to the Asterix and Obelix comics we have an image of the Gauls as a people who put up great resistance to the Roman occupation, the reality is that the irreducible were the pre-Roman peoples who occupied the peninsula (Iberians, Celts...). It took Rome 8 years to occupy Gaul and 2 centurie