Robert Koch put up a fight against the "invisible enemy," that is, tuberculosis. An unheralded country doctor made a significant contribution to medical knowledge at a time when physicians were ...

In the Middle Ages, the imaginary is an integral part of reality. The world of that time cannot be conceived otherwise. Within this panorama, both real and wonderful, plants play a major role in ...

Napoleon's Grande Armée included a wide array of cavalry units, each with specialized roles and distinctive characteristics. Among the most famous types of cavalry were the Hussars, Cuirassiers, and ...

The French Revolution (1789–1799) profoundly transformed the relationship between religion and the state in France, leading to a period of intense conflict, reform, and secularization that forever ...

Napoleon's Grande Armée Medical Service was a pioneering system in military medicine, representing one of the earliest attempts to provide systematic medical care for a large, mobile army. Despite the ...

Henry IV of France (1553–1610), also known as Henry of Navarre, was the first monarch of the Bourbon dynasty and ruled as King of France from 1589 to 1610. His reign marked a significant turning point ...

The phrase, which translated from Latin means "God wills it! (Deus vult)" and is featured in the subtitle of the article, marked the beginning of the era of the Crusades. Over nine hundred years ago, ...

Everyone knows that Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people, but not everyone knows how it differs from other national religions, why a religious Jew cannot walk under an umbrella on a rainy ...

Perhaps the most famous battle in ancient Greek history is the Battle of Thermopylae, which took place in 480 BCE. During this battle, Spartan King Leonidas and his 300 warriors heroically resisted ...

Who were the medieval inquisitors? Whom did they hunt? Did witches really exist? Were they burned at the stake? How many people were killed in total? Judicial investigations were practiced by both the ...

The existence of the Oaths of Strasbourg in 842, which are mutual assistance oaths between Charlemagne‘s grandsons (a bilingual document in the Gallo-Roman language, the “ancestor” of French, and in ...

The Christmas season in Romania begins on December 6, on Saint Nicholas’s day, and ends on January 7, with the celebration of Saint John. Despite the Orthodox population, they celebrate Christmas on ...