Among the famous people of France of recent times, first of all, the name of a prominent politician and patriot Charles de Gaulle should be ...

“Perhaps future generations will not believe that such a man of ordinary flesh and blood walked this earth,” Albert Einstein said of Mahatma...

A hand poked an oily-brown ball of opium with a needle - and here it is in the cup of a smoking pipe. A few puffs - and the person is alread...

The Directory (as the French government had been called since 1797) willingly agreed to support the general's plan. Who needs a popular comm...

Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the brightest figures of modern history, was born on August 15, 1769 in the city of Ajaccio on the island of Cors...

Each new foreign invasion, instead of rallying the Italians in the face of a common enemy, only deepened the contradictions, bringing them t...

Burger (from the German word "burg" - castle, fortress, city) - a resident of a Western European medieval city. Like a knight, a monk, a pea...

Архитекторы проектируют здания. Недавние попытки дать новое определение этому обманчиво простому определению кажутся преждевременны...

Philip, in the fight against such a powerful force as the papacy, decided to rely on the nation and convened in April 1302 the first in Fren...

There are three Arthurs in the memory of mankind - Arthur of history, Arthur of legends and Arthur of chivalric novels, and one image smooth...

Sindhu - this is how the inhabitants of the country that stretched along its banks called their river; it was known to the Greeks as Indos, ...

Small room with low vaulted ceiling. Rare rays of sunlight make their way through the narrow windows. Boys of different ages sit at a long t...

At the beginning of the 5th century BC. a formidable external danger hung over Greece. By this time, the Persian state of the Achaemenids wa...