Character identified with Zarathustra. Detail from The School of Athens, by Raphël. 1509. Vatican • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Some words attract the ear. Zarathustra is one of them with its dazzling sounds. Whether it is called Zarathustra or Zoroaster in Europe, Zardosht in Iran, it fascinates. Intelle
Formatted in the 320s-380s, the Acts of Pilate chronicles the death and resurrection of Christ and functions as documentary evidence of historicity, contemporaneous with the events. They are also known as the Gospel of Nicodemus (the one who got Pilate to bury Jesus). The account of the trial aims t
The day after his majority, he had to face new revolts from the great barons. A first attempt, led by Thibaud de Champagne and Pierre Mauclerc, was just a flash in the pan. But more formidable is the movement in 1241 triggered by Hugues de Lusignan and his wife Isabelle, widow of Jean sans Terre and
As is known, the missiles current had as precursors to the projectiles V-1 and V-2 developed by the Luftwaffe (the German air force) since the 1930s, under the Nazi government , and put into service after 1944. The V-1 made its test flight in late 1941 and saw action in June 1944 targeting London,