Monte Piana ("Flat Mountain") in the Italian Alps. A bloody and protracted battle was fought there  during WWI  between the forc...

  The " Zombie Fungus " Cordyceps kills an ant after having taken control of its neural system. Could something like that happen i...

  "Les Glaneuses"  (the gleaners). A painting by Francois Millet (1857). Is this the destiny of the people of Western Europe? All ...

  The above is from a previous post of mine , where I laid down some rules to evaluate the wartime propaganda of the media. If you have been...

  Napoleon Bonaparte in full imperial regalia. He got close to creating a European Empire, but he failed in the end. He faced the same strat...

  The front page from the Italian newspaper "La Stampa" on Oct 12, 1941. A good example of wartime propaganda.   War is a complica...

  Greek Artillery in 1940, fighting the Italian invasion I have no more information available than the average person connected to the Web, ...

         Empires are alive, they move, they grow, they feel, they die. They have a soul that sometimes can be glimpsed, as in this unbelieva...

  An old movie showed the story of someone trying to impersonate a chess Grand Master. He succeeded to the point that he was invited to play...