The Coca-Cola conquers the world

Send us your article... write the history!

An invention that has literally conquered the world.
The Coca-Cola is a drink that is on the tables all over the world, so widespread as to become a trademark of 71.8 billion dollars!
Maybe not even its inventor, the American pharmacist John Stith Pemberton, could imagine the success of his drink when on May 8, 1886 in Atlanta he invented a new alcohol-based remedy against tiredness, the 'Pemberton's French Wine Coca'.
Pemberton replaced alcohol with an extract of kola nuts that together with a mixture of coca leaves formed the 'Coca-Cola'.
In fact, the coca plant was and it is considered a health hazard so the extract that is used is deprived of all toxic substances, then we should not be impressed by the name 'Coca'. Paradoxically, this excerpt is the 'secret ingredient' of the famous drink: the 'aroma 7x' is jealously guarded and kept secret by The Coca-Cola Company. 

The Coca-Cola's logo, although it looks very nice in the fonts used, was created with little attention by an accounting of the Company that used the font 'Spencerian Script', very common in the United States at that time. But this is not the greatest curiosity about the Coca-Cola. 

We all know that the character of Santa Claus, with a long white beard, was inspired by St. Nicholas, patron of children. So, the costume of Santa Claus would become red only once, in the 30s, the Coca-Cola Company used it for its Christmas advertising, and dressed him in red and white, just like the logo of its famous drink. 

In short, we can say that Santa Claus is 'Coca-Cola branded'!!

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day should be celebrated in July

Send us your article... write the history!
Do you recognize the monument in this photo?
Apart from experts, it is difficult to answer.
We all know that on January 27 the liberation of the Auschwitz Camp is celebrated (from 1945) but it was not the first camp to be liberated.

The Red Army arrived in Majdanek in Lublin (Poland) on July 22, 1944 finding crematory ovens, mass graves and packages of poison gas: all clear evidences of the mass murder.
Although the Nazis were able to burn the field before escaping, many evidences of the Holocaust remained intact. 

The photo depicts the monument to the victims of the Majadnek Camp, the first extermination camp liberated, almost a year before the Auschwitz Camp's liberation.

The man who flew solo around the world

Send us your article... write the history!
A man with an eyepatch.
This was the characteristic feature of Wiley Post, the first man who made a complete tour of the world on an airplane, alone.
Using the auto-pilot and compass in place of his navigator, after leaving New York in 1933, he made ​​a stop in Berlin, the Soviet Union, Alaska and Canada, before returning to the starting point after 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
The American aviator had already been around the world in 1931, however together with a navigator and not alone.
His adventures ended two years after the big company, when Post crashed in Alaska in an attempt to fly over the North Pole to reach Russia.

The CD-Rom changes the way to preserve knowledge

Send us your article... write the history!

In the early Eighties, the floppy disk stored a maximum amount of information of 2 megabytes, a memory today not even enough to save a song in mp3 format. 

The Hindenburg, the giant of the skies

Send us your article... write the history!

The Hindenburg was a great airship, so great that it is the largest flying object ever built! It was long 245m and wide 50m  and it contained a huge amount of hydrogen (very light gas that made it float in the air), touching a top speed of 135 kmph! 

The United States Declaration of Independence

Send us your article... write the history!
The Declaration of Independence lead to the birth of the Federation of the United States of America.

The victory of people against the monarchy - The storming of the Bastille

Send us your article... write the history!
The storming of the Bastille is regarded as the event which started the French Revolution.

On July 14, 1789 Paris was in turmoil. The citizens were determined to rebel against the monarchy and to pursue their goal, they needed weapons. On the morning of that day they attacked the 'Hôtel des Invalides' (a building that housed wounded soldiers), grabbing 28,000 rifles and same cannons.

The giant of the seas becomes legend - The sinking of the Titanic

Send us your article... write the history!
The transtlantic Titanic owes its fame to its tragic end, the night between the 14th and the 15th April 1912.

It all started when the Titanic impacted with a giant iceberg on the route to New York. Despite the fully operating pumps, the water that came into the hull was too much in fact at 1.50 am of April,15, the prow (the part hit by the iceberg ) began to sink.

The Chernobyl disaster

Send us your article... write the history!
The nuclear disaster of Chernobyl has marked a point of great change regarding the consideration of nuclear energy. 

On 26 April 1986, the reactor 4 of the nuclear power plant exploded letting out a large amount of radioactive vapors.

The discourse of Martin Luther King - 'I have a dream'

Send us your article... write the history!
On 28 August 1963, the crowd gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington when the protest march for civil rights of black people ended. At that time, Martin Luther King prononced the famous words of 'I Have a Dream', in which he expressed his hope that one day there would be no difference between whites and blacks.

The fall of the Berlin Wall

Send us your article... write the history!
The Berlin Wall was completed in 1961, built by The East Germany to separate itself, from West Germany, fascist territory. 

It consisted of two city walls with a space in between 10 meters wide and called "death strip" because soldiers had orders to shoot and kill anyone who tried to climb over the fortification. Some sources claim that the people killed while they tried to reach West Germany were 133, but they might be more than 200 counting those who were killed after being captured.