Boris Vian wrote “I will spit on your grave” (J’irai cracher sur vos tombes) in 1947, and became a bestseller. Today it is still a hard and disturbing novel, perhaps…
Marco Polo: Facts about his life
When the father and the uncle undertook the first to travel through unknown lands, (as you can read in the biography of Marco Polo), who have not accompanied them, was…
Marco Polo: The Great Traveler
Marco Polo, Venice, Italy 1254 – Venice, 1338 It has been more than 750 years of the birth of Marco Polo, the adventurer who discovered the East to Western eyes,…
Hitler and Franco meeting in Hendaye, the Full Story
On October 23, 1940, Francisco Franco, at this time, his Excellency the Caudillo, and Adolf Hitler, the Führer, Chancellor of the Third Reich, are in Hendaye. The meeting has been…
Egyptian Hieroglyphics and the Rosseta stone
Egyptian Hieroglyphics The Old Egyptian Empire created codes that left embedded in the walls of their monuments. These symbols took them from reality and describe what they served to represent…
20 19th century inventions for children
They have been incorporated into our daily lives as part of it naturally. Maybe for that reason, because they have been with us for more than a century. They are…
Isabel of France, the princess of Braveheart
For all moviegoers, Princess Isabel of France will always have the features of Sophie Marceau, the beautiful french actress who played this role in the Mel Gibson Braveheart movie. The…
Freud said Leonardo Da Vinci was gay
Leonardo Da Vinci was gay? That is a question that is constantly repeated. There is much interest in knowing everything that has to do with the genius of Leonardo Da…
The queen Cristina of Norway: the princess who came from the north
… That he came to marry Castile from the mysterious countries of the North: that Alfonso X “the Wise”, being unhappy because his wife, Violante de Aragón, daughter of Jaime…
The Meaning of the Pirate Flag
In this article we will know the meaning of the pirate flag and all types of pirate flags that have existed in History The mere mention of “the word PIRATES”…