Blue blood: why this expression is used to indicate the aristocrats?
On the origin of the saying "have blue blood" [...]
Payment methods: Evolution from the Neolithic to the Information Age
Payment methods have been around for centuries and always have [...]
History of the Scala: from the Origins to the Present, from 6000 a.C. till today
History of the staircase: wooden ladder [...]
Playing cards: Origins of a pastime that does not know Sunset
Old playing cards The playing cards [...]
Henry IV of Bourbon, said the Great: the King who stank… of Garlic!
Assassination of Henry IV of Bourbon in a painting [...]
Table Knives: how they changed from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Bronze Renaissance table knife Also i [...]
Tax on the Hat: one of the strangest Balzelli in history
Men's and women's fashion in the 19th century. From 1784 al 1811, [...]
Tax on Wigs: the End of an Era and a Fashion
Showy eighteenth-century wigs. The wig tax was there [...]
Medicinal Wines: in the fifteenth century people were also treated like this
A man drinks one of the medicinal wines as much in [...]
Antonio Latini: the cook who decreed the success of the tomatoes at the table
The beginning of the success of tomatoes on the table is due to [...]