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The Vikings' siege of Paris in 885-86 was a turning point in the history of both Paris and France. In 885, a year after Charles the Fat was crowned King of the Franks, Danish Vikings sailed up the Seine demanding tribute. The Franks' refusal prompted the Vikings to lay siege to Paris, which was (...)

Just two weeks after the close of the Vietnam War, communist Cambodian Khmer Rouge elements seized the S.S. Mayaguez in international waters. Believing they had to act quickly, United States Marines boarded the ship, only to find the crew had been removed. They then launched an assault on a nearby (...)

Spanning 38 years of the 'Troubles', the British Army's deployment in Northern Ireland (codenamed Operation Banner) was one of the most difficult and controversial in its recent history. Over 10,000 troops were on active service during much of the campaign, which saw armoured vehicles, helicopters (...)

A fully illustrated overview of the USSR's bloody conflict in Afghanistan and its long legacy.The Soviet invasion of its neighbour Afghanistan in December 1979 sparked a nine-year conflict until Soviet forces withdrew in 1988 89, dooming the communist Afghanistan government to defeat at the hands (...)

Un paseo por los recuerdos de una afortunada familia de Barcelona. Con ellos irán apareciendo seres peculiares, como Picasso, el maharajá de Kapurthala, Dalí, Richard Strauss, Sert y los príncipes Mdivani, Josep Pla, Alfonso XIII, Bárbara Hutton, el zar de Rusia, Nicolás Franco, incluso la Trini, (...)

Manos patológicas en la pintura se encuadra dentro de lo que se conoce como la diagnosis en el lienzo o lo que es lo mismo, el diagnóstico retrospectivo de dolencias a través de representaciones pictóricas. El doctor Juliá se sirve de las obras de grandes maestros de la pintura como Rubens, El (...)