Charles “Chuck” Yeager, after entering the United States Air Force pilot training school, had an extensive professional career comprising several important moments. Perhaps the most
There is an expression that was used by the Romans, “to give it the sponge,” which meant “to erase.” In those times, a kind of
St. Francis of Paola was an Italian mendicant friar and the founder of the Roman Catholic Order of Minims. His fame of sanctity was well-known
Charles I, King of Spain (also known as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor), was walking one day with considerable difficulty due to an attack of
During the pontificate of Paul III, it is said that a cardinal was persistently asking him for a favor. However, Paul III kept putting it
A story is told of four men who were carrying a large board, although it was not so big. It was a slate that could actually
The prefect of a department in France, who was a Christian man, often visited hospitals. Once, while visiting a hospital run by nuns, he was
According to tradition, Micipsa, who was the king of Numidia—a region that today comprises northwest Africa, or more precisely, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia—was an ally
From a mountain, a river flowed down, gradually dividing into channels. One of these channels ended at the perimeter of three fields. The owner of
Two families were locked in a feud. The aggression between them escalated to such an extent that one family ended up killing the son of