Cosmetic Surgery and its Place in Modern Society
People have been concerned about their appearance from the beginning of recorded history. It might sound surprising, but cosmetic surgery has been around for centuries. The tools and methods may differ, but physicians have always [...]
History of La Alhambra in Granada
In this article we will try and explain the history of The Alhambra of Granada, one of the most interesting places to visit in Spain. And on the other hand we are going to recommend [...]
William Turner (Painter)
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was an English painter who stood out thanks to his extraordinary watercolour landscapes and oil paintings. The particular confusion between brilliance and madness was very obvious in the biography of [...]
Henry M. Stanley, explorer and journalist
Henry M. Stanley, explorer and journalist Stanley with a bearer carring his favourite shooting stick / literaturadeviajes.com One is not too sure that modern schoolchildren are taught about persons like Henry Stanley, or [...]
Further thoughts on the SS
/ germaniainternational.com The Schützstaffel was a more or less elite special force created by the National Socialist Party in 1925 for the ‘special protection’ of Adolf Hitler. The name means ‘defence group’, and [...]
Another message from Jeremy Taylor
The author / apaisada.com You can read a book (at the risk of your eyesight) off your computer screen, or you can have it read to you by some famous actor; you can [...]
A bracing brace of Bentincks
3rd Duke of Portland / alaintruong.com Hans Willem, Baron Bentinck was born in the middle of the seventeenth century. An aristocrat by birth, he served as a page to the Stadholder (q.v.) William. [...]
The revolt of Portugal
Sunrise over an older part of Lisbon / the guardian.com The first king of this tiny country, washed by the Atlantic, and blessed with fine seamen, navigators and harbours, was Alfonso I, in [...]
Two Popes with the name Julius
Rex Harrison suitable pious as Julius II (right) & Charlton Heston wooden as Michaelangelo (left) in a Hollywood extravaganza / m759.net In this case I cannot do my usual playing with papal names [...]
Further thoughts on the Khmer Rouge
In 1970, serious trouble boiled up again when the Prince Sihanouk was knocked off the throne by a Cambodian communist guerilla force called Khmer Rouge. This brutal, well-organised group was inevitably opposed to an American [...]
Four revolutions of 1848
Gen. Moritz Karl Ernest von Prittwitz / wikiwand.com Revolutions are a regular feature in all history, human nature being what it is. The careful student can probably find a revolution of some kind [...]
Important European families: Este and Esterhazy
The Villa d’Este at Tivoli / en wikipedia.org Any family that distinguishes itself for eight hundred and seventy-five years must have something special, and the Italian family d’Este has it. Appearing first in [...]
The murder of Elisabeth Feodorovna
/ russiapastand present.blogspot.com This beautiful, doomed woman was the sister of the Tsarina Alexandra of Russia, and of Prince Ernest of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the daughter of Princess Alice of Great Britain, which made [...]
Seven Christian kings in Scandinavia
Christian X riding in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen / copenhagenet.dk Christian I was born in 1426 and became King of Denmark in 1448, King of Norway in 1450 and Sweden in 1457. In case this [...]
Further thoughts on Thomas Becket, martyr and saint
O’Toole & Burton (right) as the King and Thomas Becket in the famous movie / mrfalk.18.wordpress.com Thomas Becket, or Thomas à Becket as he was called by my teacher of History, was not [...]
‘Benedict’ popes before Benedict XVI
Benedict XIV, from a painting by Benoit / en.wikipedia.org Pope Francisco recently reached the throne of Peter because his predecessor decided, wisely perhaps, to retire from the Papacy before his death – a [...]
Bundeswehr
/ elrobotpescador.com After Federal Germany’s entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in May, 1955, the Federal German Armed Forces came into being under the name Bundeswehr. At first, it consisted of [...]
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