This is Putin: a stern, intelligent and even pleasant tightrope walker if the occasion...

Robot portrait of the Russian president, a kind of tightrope walker who walked on the wire with unstable balance. From...

The ten days of history that never existed: when the calendar tore out ten...

In 1582, the Western world went from October 4 to the 15th to adapt to the Gregorian calendar, which was more...

When the corsair Francis Drake tried to conquer Las Palmas for England and failed

On October 6, 1595, the attempted assault of the Canary Islands by the English fleet took place within the framework of...

The Battle of Poltava: the decisive clash between Russia and Sweden for hegemony in...

Ukraine was three hundred years ago the scene where Carlos XII and Pedro I faced each other in the greatest campaign...

Biden ignores Spain and celebrates “Italian immigration” on Columbus Day

In an official statement made public on the official website of the White House, the US president takes the probable Italian...

When Thomas Mann turned his back on Nazism

October 13, 1922 is usually set as the date of the writer's adherence to democracy after having applauded the Weimar Republic...

Courtesan, spy, “femme fatale”; who was actually Mata Hari?

With her dances and her beauty, she carved out a life for herself as an elite courtesan, in order to survive....

Elizabeth II, the “annus horribilis” that marked her entire life

We exclusively reproduce a fragment of Robert Hardman's great biography of the queen, which is published on Wednesday and gives an...

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