Jacob Nufer, the man who defied the impossible
In the heart of 16th-century Switzerland, when medicine was still dominated by superstition and uncertain attempts, an episode took place
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In the heart of 16th-century Switzerland, when medicine was still dominated by superstition and uncertain attempts, an episode took place
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The years of the “Cold War”, which see the United States of America and the Soviet Union in opposition, are
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An enigma that has lasted since 1703, Italy, France and Paris are the backdrop to one of the most intricate
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New Orleans is, without a doubt, one of the most characteristic cities in the United States of America. Beating heart
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When we talk about “witch-hunting”, the memory and the collective imagination run to an ancient past made of tortures, burning
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Jameson Whiskey is one of the most famous and sold in the world, but on the name of the Scottish
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The devil’s letter is a mystery that has fascinated scholars from all over the world since 1600. But thanks to
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Crinoline is a cage-like structure that used to sit under skirts to support them and make them wider. This fashion,
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The Celebrated Crimes are a corpus of eighteen stories written by Alexandre Dumas. From the adventure novel, the father of
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Erzsebet Bathory is also known as the Bloody Countess or Countess Dracula. These nicknames suit her perfectly, since she used
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In the twenty-first century there are now many people who consider zoos extremely cruel: remove wild animals from their habitats
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Harold Gillies was born in New Zealand in 1882 and studied medicine at Cambridge University in London. He is now
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