Chinese history is a huge resource. People can deepen their understanding of prosperity, democracy, civilization and harmony from the Confucian benevolent governance and the royal way (political civilization), the understanding of freedom, equality, justice and the rule of law from the doctrine of forgiveness, rule by rites and doctrines of Laozi and Zhuangzi, and the …
The only form of identity Roman citizens carried was a note from the censor administering a wheat subsidy. In AD 79, citizens paid only two sesterces for every eight cubic liters of wheat. The normal price fluctuated between seven sesterces and 1.74 denarii. Furthermore, Roman citizens were required to wear a toga in the Roman forum and …
Well, the Romans were quite creative with this matter. – Damnatio ad bestiae: A classic. Being condemned to be devoured in an amphitheater by wild beasts for the amusement of the mob is no small feat either. And it wasn’t always lions. Sometimes there were animal rapes, for example by a giraffe, or a lion, or mythological recreations, …
They really got King Richard III of England dirty. Shakespeare did it, and the Tudors did it, after his death. He has this reputation as a coward and a horrible schemer, deformed, hideous, terrible. Dismounted in his final battle, he should have yelled, “A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!” Balls! Richard wasn’t dismounted, he was dismounted! For all that he had done …
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Simple, the victories of the West are analyzed more than their defeats. For example; Much is said about the victories of Marathon and Salamis, but few speak of the failed campaign in Egypt where, in alliance with that people, Athens and the Delos league help him to achieve independence from him. But the campaign ended in a disaster, …
It was more important than what is said, and I start everything from a photo: Why do you put this photo on me, you will ask me? Well, in that photo, or rather painting painted by Augusto Ferrer Dalmau; looks like a soldier Well, that soldier is Cervantes and that place is the deck of a …
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Not even conventional Japanese pilots, nor the Imperial Navy, who at the time were the most rigorously trained pilots in the world, nor those of the Imperial Army decided to use their parachutes to escape in case their aircraft was hit. This was due to the Japanese doctrine and mentality that surrendering to the enemy …
The iron. Metallic meteorites are composed of 90% iron, 5% nickel and the rest of other elements. Iron on Earth is not so easy to obtain. Pure or nearly pure iron is inaccessible to humans because it is only found in the core of the planet. Iron is not a native element of the earth’s crust. There are no iron …
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There are several that deserve mention, but in my opinion it was Russian Valentina Tereshkova (Russian: Валентина Терешкова). Valentina, who had the nickname “Chaika” (seagull), was the first woman to go into space, for the extinct USSR, at the height of the “Space Race” against the USA, in the 1960s. fatherless and had little chance of studying. However, a …
The woman in the photo, a certain Margaret Schilling, a patient at the Athens asylum. On December 2, 1978, the woman disappeared, possibly while playing hide-and-seek with a nurse who forgot to look for her. A search was carried out throughout the building, which was huge and filled with rooms with more than 2,000 patients, but …
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