The Cannes Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, primarily centered on the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. Founded in 1946, the festival is one of the most prestigious and widely publicized film festivals in the world.
The widely used gesture today of obscenely raising the middle finger while keeping the hand closed – the comb – has its origin in ancient Greece. In the work The clouds of the playwright Aristophanes , in 423 BC, he showed his animosity towards Socrates. In this comedy, a poorly educated peasant is
The Middle Ages are arguably both the most popular and poorly understood era in European history. On the one hand there is a fascination for the Middle Ages. You can understand this wonderfully in films or series, but also in the popularity of medieval festivals, role-playing games and much more. Ma
When the Byzantine Empire first used firearms is not known. There are indications that cannons were used in 1390 in the civil conflict between John E and John Z Palaiologos. Cannons and early rifles apparently reached Byzantium from the West, probably via the Venetians and Genoese. There is much
Domeniko Elassonas is a small village in Thessaly. But it is also one of the villages that became a holocaust during the triple foreign occupation in 1941-44. The only difference compared to other similar crimes is that this one was committed by good Italians. In Greece, the opinion has prevailed