The tiny Croatian island that has more than 23 kilometers of walls …
WEBSep 6, 2019 · Without reaching the Greek profusion, Croatia has 79 large islands, more than 500 smaller islets and another 642 tiny rocks covering an area of about 3,300 square kilometers. One such small island is Baljenac (or Bavljenac), located off the Dalmatian coast in the south of the country and forming
When Cicero found Archimedes’ tomb in Syracuse.
WEBMar 19, 2019 · During the works a tomb was found, which can still be seen in one of the courtyards of the hotel. Some experts believe that this is the tomb of Archimedes, while others are inclined to assign it to Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse between 317 and 289 BC. There is no trace of the column, the sphere and the cylinder.
Albinoni's Adagio was composed by the Italian musicologist Remo ...
WEBFeb 24, 2019 · Surely this is surprising because, after all, the famous Adagio in G minor is not only one of the best-known pieces of classical music but also one of the most popular among music lovers with a closely linked name of title and author: “Albinoni’s Adagio”. It is ironic, therefore, that in reality the work is not by that baroque composer but by a biographer of him who lived two centuries ...
Luz Long, the German athlete who befriended Jesse Owens and …
WEBMay 13, 2020 · The next day the final was held – immortalised by Leni Riefenstahl’s camera in her Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations), the first part of her famous Olympia film – and although Long managed to jump 7.87, Owens smashed that mark with 8.06, breaking the Olympic record and climbing to the top of the podium; the bronze went to Japan’s Naoto Tajima (who would later win in the triple jump ...
The World War II airmen who survived falls from thousands of feet …
WEBJun 17, 2019 · The World War II airmen who survived falls from thousands of feet high. In 1972 a Serbian hostess named Vesna Vulović became famous and is registered in the Guinness Book of Records for having survived the fall of her plane from over 32,000 feet in altitude. But this is not a unique case; several more are known, one of …
The sword embedded in the rock of the precipice of Rocamadour …
WEBOct 15, 2019 · The sword embedded in the rock of the precipice of Rocamadour for 9 centuries. Durandal (or Durandarte) was the famous sword of Roland, the Frankish knight who died at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass on 15 August 788 by attack of the Basques. The accounts of that battle and the subsequent fate of the …
Devshirme, the recruitment of Christian children by the Ottoman …
WEBAug 18, 2020 · The first, called Kapıkulu Süvari (Cavalry of the Servants of the Sublime Gate), was an elite troop structured into six divisions and made up of the sipahi (a word derived from the Persian sepâhi), equivalent to the European knights.In other words, they were noble holders of a swindle (fiefdom) which, in a conceptual medieval survival, had been granted to them by the sultan in exchange for ...
Lapulapu, the Filipino chief turned national hero who killed Magellan
WEBOct 6, 2022 · This is where Lapulapu comes into the picture, as one of them was him ( the other one was called Zula). Also known as Çilapulapu (this is how Pigafetta wrote it), Si Lapulapu (according to José Rizal), Salip Pulaka and Kali Pulako (these last two would be closer to honorific titles than to the name), the truth is …
Electrum, the natural gold and silver alloy used to mint the first ...
WEBMay 20, 2020 · Electrum, we said, is composed of gold and silver; it has a proportion of four parts of the first and one of the second, but there are also traces of other metals such as platinum or, above all, copper. This is because it is not an artificial alloy but a natural one, although it can also be manufactured, in which case the composition ...
Eduard Bloch, the Jewish doctor whom Hitler helped to leave …
WEBApr 3, 2020 · Its author, as can be deduced, was one of the Führer’s doctors, but what is really curious is that he was Jewish and the Führer himself helped him to leave Germany. Eduard Bloch was born on 30 January 1872 in the Bohemian town of Frauenberg, now called Hluboká nad Vltavou and belonging to the Czech Republic but then to …