Charles Joseph Bonaparte, who founded the FBI, was Napoleon's …
WEBFeb 1, 2019 · A year before these elections, he also took part in the creation of the National Municipal League (a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring public health, respect for the environment, education, racial equality…), in which he defended the rights of African Americans.. Over the following years, Charles Joseph held increasingly important positions, starting with the Board of Indian ...
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 ...
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WEBAbout. LBV Magazine is property of Guillermo Carvajal Palao, assisted in editing tasks by Jorge Álvarez. Occasionally other authors collaborate or have collaborated in it. Our main contents have to do with history, archaeology, art, science, travel and current affairs in terms of discoveries related to these subjects.
Saigō Takamori: the true story of the last samurai
WEBJan 3, 2021 · Saigō Takamori was in command of a corps during the conflict and shone with special intensity in the Battle of Toba-Fushimi (January 1868), in which he crushed the enemy after four days of fighting. Despite the fact that the forces in battle were small and the dead barely numbered a few hundred, that victory convinced the …
Rivers and seas made of mercury inside the tomb of China’s first ...
WEBJan 10, 2020 · The famous terracotta warriors are only a part of the gigantic mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of unified China, who reigned between 221 and 210 BC. In fact, the complex, located 30 kilometers east of Xian in the northwest of the country, houses more than 400 tombs covering the impressive area of 60 square kilometers.
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 ...
Gonzalo Guerrero, the Spanish castaway who became a Mayan …
WEBMay 29, 2020 · Gonzalo Guerrero, the Spanish castaway who became a Mayan and fought against the conquistadors. When we talk about miscegenation in reference to the ethnic and cultural fusion that the conquest of America by the Spanish meant, there is a character that embodies it almost emblematically. He is Gonzalo Guerrero, a …
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 …
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 ...
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 …
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