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Rosa P. History is sometimes written by small gestures, for example refusing to give up her seat on a bus, as Rosa Parks did in Alabama in 1955, just because the colour of her skin is not the right colour, starting the fight for black rights. Rosa Louise Mc Cauley was born on 4 February 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, to peasant parents. She had to leave high school to care for her sick mother, and at 19 she married Raymond Parks, a barber in her neighbourhood. Her husband was…
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History Notes: On December 2, 1804 in NotreDame, Napoleon Bonaparte "self-corrected" emperor of France. "Men of genius are like meteors destined to burn to illuminate their century" cit. Napoleon.
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The city of Peter the Great The Soviet Union (followed by its satellite countries) experienced many changes in toponymy for political reasons, for example, Tsaritsyn on the Volga became Stalingrad, the scene of an epic battle during the Second World War, but after Stalin's death, it changed to that of Volgograd. Just as the capital of Tsarist Russia, founded on the marshy estuary of the Nevà, what the Russians liked to call the Venice of the North, with its canals and…
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The photo of the day (by kork75) The Gulf of La Spezia, with Lerici and Portovenere, is also called the Gulf of Poets. Its beauty kidnapped David H. Lawrence, Lord Byron, D'Annunzio and Shelley.
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Sms Today, December 3, 1992 First SMS📳 in history: "Merry Christmas"🎄 was the content of the message sent from a computer... A Christmas wish made well in advance. The first SMS between two phones was sent the following year.
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Witches' hunt On 5th December 1484, Pope Innocent VIII with the bubble *Summis desiderantes affectibus* *(Desiderando con supremo ardorato)*, officially banned witchcraft. This was the basis of the notorious witch hunt. It was a horrible massacre of humble and anonymous victims of all ages and conditions: midwives, healers, peasants, prostitutes and in many cases simple women. Victims were often arrested for reporting an envious neighbour or for simple gossip.…
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Prohibition in America On 5 December 1933, Heber J. Grant's Utah of the Mormons, the long season of American prohibition, opened in 1919 with the approval of the 18th Amendment, which had banned the consumption of alcohol. That day, at 5.27 p.m. (New York time), America took back the freedom to drink and the less noble thing to get drunk by rising to the sky twinkling toasts of beer mugs and glasses of whisky. Thus ended the obsessive crusade against alcohol, or as many…
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TheRandomRewarder, he forgot about me... 8 articles without reward... Who has the same problem?
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Pearl Harbor At 7.40 a.m. on a quiet Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor US Air Force Base in Hawaii, a surprise attack began one of the most dramatic in world history, without any declaration of war. It was a prodigious but classically military attack that had as its aim the destruction of the US Pacific fleet and which resulted in the decision of Roosevelt and the US Congress to take the field against Japan, provoking the declarations of war by Germany and Italy. The fire raid,…
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The photo of the day 📸 Castione della Presolana (Bg)🇮🇹🏔️ "Even if snow falls and fury is all frozen, it's not cold what I feel inside".
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Attack on the Republic I have always been intrigued by the fact that in the subversive operation against the Italian State of 7-8 December 1970, called Golpe Borghese (named after its organiser), the operative role of the subversive plan, i.e. to establish a reactionary and neo-fascist government through a direct attack on the democratic institutions of the Republic, should have fallen to the military column of the State Forestry Corps. The foresters, assisted by former…
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Pirati (un racconto by kork75) Il Sea-Blue era un gioiello della cantieristica navale, un moderno yatch da quarantacinque milioni di dollari. In una calda sera di luglio il suo guscio d’acciaio, con prora in direzione di Montecarlo, sfrecciava elegante e potente sul mare calmo delle Canarie. Al termine di una breve sosta a Las Palmas, per imbarcare l’ultimo passeggero, la traversata oceanica iniziata un mese prima stava per concludersi. Gli unici quattro ospiti, sistemati…
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In a world full of assholes, the only pure and free spirits are creative people. by kork75
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Riddle A doctor and an engineer are in love with the same girl. https://pixabay.com/it/illustrations/apple-mela-frutti-frutta-cibo-1988506/ One day the engineer has to go on a trip, he will be away for a week. Before he leaves, he leaves the girl a bag with seven apples. **Perché?** ***An apple a day keeps the doctor away***. The famous saying suggests eating an apple a day as the properties and benefits of this fruit are many and complete.
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Riddle of the day (by kork75) *"Tall, the palace of the three hundred knights.* *The knights are all there with their swords drawn....* *and bloody head".* **Clue: I'm a tree.**
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Riddle of the Day I'm soft, furry, lying down from door to door. I am the animal that always stays on the floor. What am I?
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Scrooge "visited" by ghosts London ghosts in a fairy tale in the London of 800 to expose greed and avarice, this tells us the English novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) in "A Christmas Carol" which tells of the rich Ebenezer Scrooge "visited" by ghosts (Scrooge inspired Disney's character of Uncle Scrooge). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol A Christmas Carol, is an 1843 short novel in the fantasy genre by Charles Dickens, of which it is one of the most famous…