HENRY VIII – died in 1547, in London – last wish – to be buried with Jane Seymour, one of his wives who kept her head The will of Henry VIII, the second king of the Tudor dynasty, one of the most powerful monarchs in England, was written on December 30, 1546, less than a […]
The king’s escape was the culmination of royalty, which, as Alexandre Dumas says, took „seven hundred and four years to climb to Varennes and only nineteen months to descend from Varennes to the Revolution Square.” The three years between the French Revolution and the time of the escape meant for Louis XVI a real descent […]
We all love to have a good time, especially men that are single and have no plans to get married. Nothing wrong with that, living the modern life is quite beneficial for some, but there are issues that still confront modern man. Be it caused by genetics, health issues or be it the result of […]
In the middle of the 7th century BC, a new type of tactical instrument is generalizing in the Greek world: a phalanx of heavy-armed pedestrians, the hoplites. The name “hoplites” derives from the collective noun “ta hopla, panoplia”, meaning the totality of the offensive and defensive weapons that each soldier is wearing in this formation: […]
