It is said that the defecation of a pigeon is a good luck – surely no more than that which brought him that pigeon Rotschildi. In search of the origin of the belief, one has to go back to 236 AD.
Emperor Maximino Trazio hardened oppression against Christians and, when he killed Pope Antero martyred, the Christian community had to meet to elect its successor. As most of the time, there was a discussion among a number of people, but there was no clear candidate. At that time he approached a peasant coming from his work. Suddenly, a dove cracked the peasant Fabian on top, and the congregations considered him a sign of the Holy Spirit. As Fabian was secular, there he was ordained a priest, bishop and pope, always according to the historian Eusebio de Cesarea in his work Historia Ecclesiae. Fabian held office until his death on 20 January 250.
For pedagogical or methodological reasons, historians tend to fragment and divide historical periods of the past into deadlines. There are traditional times that we all know (Prehistory, Antiquity, Middle Ages, Modern and Contemporary Ages), but also several sub-ages.
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Copenhagen, 18 December 1974 At 12 noon a ferry arrived at the port, from where a group of about 100 Santa Claus landed. They brought a gigantic geese with them. The idea was to make a kind of “Trojan Goose” and, upon reaching the city, to pull the white beard costumes... [+]
Tennessee (United States), 1820. The slave Nathan Green is born, known as Nearest Uncle or Nearest Uncle. We do not know exactly when he was born and, in general, we have very little data about him until 1863, when he achieved emancipation. We know that in the late 1850s Dan... [+]
The Centre Tricontinental has described the historical resistance of the Congolese in the dossier The Congolese Fight for Their Own Wealth (the Congolese people struggle for their wealth) (July 2024, No. 77). During the colonialism, the panic among the peasants by the Force... [+]
New York, 1960. At a UN meeting, Nigeria’s Foreign Minister and UN ambassador Jaja Wachucu slept. Nigeria had just achieved independence on 1 October. Therefore, Wachuku became the first UN representative in Nigeria and had just taken office.
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Today, 50 years ago, the labor movement of the Basque Country wrote a very important chapter in its history. In Hegoalde, some 200,000 workers went on a general strike in protest against the Franco regime, which lasted two months. This mobilization made it clear that the... [+]