West, dancing with (less) wolves
"The Earth Cries", by the historian Peter Cozzens, who won the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History, objectively describes the real...
The truth of the French Revolution: collective massacres for the good of the people
The writer Simon Schama recounts with journalistic agility how France wanted to emulate the Roman EmpireThe writer Simon Schama recounts with...
Merit Ptah, the first female doctor, who did not actually exist
The Ancient Egyptian figure, celebrated for decades as a role model for women, is a hoax The Ancient Egyptian figure...
A mathematical model poses how Hitler could have defeated Churchill
Scientists use a statistical technique on some of the big “what if” questions in the momentous Battle of Britain A...
The true story of the Eiffel Tower, the symbolic monument of Paris
When in Paris, a visit to the Eiffel Tower is a must. Although on the one hand it is difficult...
The Salem Witch Trials
The Salem Witch Trials were a series of legal proceedings held in Salem, Massachusetts, in the years 1692-1693, which resulted in...
Audrey Hepburn death: 29 years later, the secrets of an icon
Twenty-nine years later ... It was snowing that day. I remember it. January 20, 1993 , Audrey Hepburn died in Switzerland...
Christianity, Jesus and Modernity. A complex relationship
Modernity—if we take roughly the period from the beginning of the 15th century to the French Revolution—made a radical critique...
Walt Disney, the man who made us fly in the imagination
Walt Disney had left in 1923, at the age of 22 (he was born on December 5, 1901), for California, with...
