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Shaka Zulu
King of Zulu and a great strategist, he is remembered as the
“African Napoleon”.
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Crete: a singular
labyrinth
According to archaeologist Evans, who discovered it, it was the
royal palace, but...
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The Amazon
Between legend and reality
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Dragons
With a snake body, bat wings, eagle claws and lion teeth, dragons
flied across the skies of myths and legends scaring the inhabitants
of towns and villages with their fierceness.
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Ilos: the deportees of Diego Garcia
In the middle of the Indian Ocean,
between Africa and Asia, Britain wrote one of the most shameful
pages of its history
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Middle Ages and Hell
To understand the medieval mentality it is first of all necessary to
understand the hereafter, and in the Middle Ages the hereafter was
mainly occupied by Hell
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The movement of the Apostolic Brothers
of Gherardino Segalello and Friar Dolcino
Year 1300 is the year of Jubilee and of universal forgiveness, but
not for everybody.
Not for Gherardino Segalello, who is burnt on the stake in Parma
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Knights Templar The Rules of the Order
.... despite all the blood spilled in
the Holy Name of Christ …
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Charlemagne and the Sacred Roman Empire
Strongly catholic, in some kingdoms he
was venerated like a saint.
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The Inquisition
Born to fight heretics applying spiritual punishments only, it ended
up inflicting tortures and condemning to the stake just on the basis
of vague suspicions
