Monthly Archives: August 2013

Today’s crisis is a very difficult world we live in A British Philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke 1729-1797 Stated “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” La crise actuelle est un monde … Continue reading →

BABYLON Historical resources suggest that Babylon was at first a small town which had sprung up by the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC , Circa 2000 BC was a Semitic Akkadian city-state founded in 1894 BC by an Amorite … Continue reading →

François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, also Toussaint Bréda, Toussaint-Louverture, or Toussaint L’ouverture 1743-1803.born into slavery on the Bréda plantation in Haut de Cap in Saint-Domingue (present day Haiti) The leader of the Haitian Revolution. The island of Hispaniola, of which Haiti occupies … Continue reading →

Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Prince de Martigues, Marquis then Duc de Villars, Vicomte de Melun 1653-1734 Career 1671: Joins the musketeers 1672: Cornet (ensign)in the Gendarmerie 1674: Cavalry Colonel 1680: Ambassador to Bavaria 1688:. Brigadier 1688: Commissaire Général de … Continue reading →

A brief synopsis before Yugoslavia According to the 10th-century Byzantine work De Administrando Imperio written by Constantine Porphyrogenitos the Serbs settled in parts of modern-day Croatia during the rule of Heraclius (610–626) and soon formed a Serbian state which stretched … Continue reading →