Times of Suffering and Times of Joy — I was always intrigued by the human soul and life as it is. And amid the COVID-19 pandemic, I started to read and write about historical figures who suffered like any of us. It’s amazing that the most distinguished people in history had heroic personal struggles. Also, many of them…

Or How Not To leave your wife for love — Why does someone betray their partner? And why is it such a cliché that a married guy gets in bed with another woman? When Albert Camus slept with María Casares, he was already famous while she had barely come of age. Oh yeah, he also had a wife and two…

In 2004, one letter sold for £240,800 — How could the guy who changed the course of 20th-century literature write porn so well? James Joyce defined modernism. He experimented with language, symbolism, and style. In Ulysses (1922), he established parallels with Homer’s Odyssey. He even played with the interior monologue and invented new words. In Finnegans Wake (1939)…

It helps “to do nothing much”. — “Your kids are away and you’re cleaning the fridge?! Why don’t you do something for yourself?” She has FOMO and Tommy Hilfiger shoes. She surely meant shopping, trying a new hairstyle, or at least skydiving. But I was pleased with scraping ice and dirt off my red 6.5 ft cooler…

The raunchy widow and the greatest general in history had an explosive romance — He was stocky and sloppy. She was popular but seen as an “easy woman” and a gold digger. Together they became one of the most influential couples in France — Napoleon and Joséphine. Nothing in their relationship was ordinary — even the first time they met. Influential politician Paul Barras…

He happily wore them for 30 years. — In November 2009, there were 600,000 people at his funeral in Belgrade, Serbia (Southeastern Europe). The small nation, deeply divided between believers and atheists, came to say their last goodbye to Patriarch Pavle. …

Still, Timmie Jean Lindsey never regretted them — From the dawn of history, women’s breasts were both a way to feed a baby and seduce men. The oldest presentation of the bust as a fertility symbol is the small limestone Venus of Willendorf from around 22,000 BCE. In the 19th century, mammary glands became too sexy, so breastfeeding…

#3 He was an icon of Occupy Wall Street — Karl Marx was an economist who still causes a Red Scare. And no wonder he does. The father of socialism fought for a classless society and workers’ rights. As a result, he spent most of his life in poverty as an immigrant. …

Discovered 500 years after it was painted — A white-bearded guy outstretches his arm toward a naked young guy. Adam (on the left) nearly touches God’s forefinger (on the right) as the Almighty imparts a spark of life into him. The first Biblical human looks very much like his Maker. “God created man in His own image, in…