In the Kosovar myth, mutually incompatible values of heroic virtue and the ideal of martyrdom were found, due to the fact that echoes of real events penetrated into the church discourse, imposed themselves there, and undisclosed historical facts were found there. The mundane feat of a fearless military leader who went into battle against a superior enemy is overshadowed by religious martyrdom
When King Petar Ovlaš, in a private conversation, told Ljuba Stojanović that he expected Stepa Stepanović in the new government, the latter explained to him that even the ruler's wish expressed in this way contradicts the principles of the parliamentary monarchy. Because of this, the king had to apologize to him in the Assembly
Exactly 150 years ago, the meter and the kilogram were accepted as official units of measurement. The question is whether the kilogram today is the same as it was 150 years ago - but for now we have no reliable method to find out
A short, sometimes darkly humorous account of historical events and moments when we invariably made mistakes in judgment, chose the wrong side or did things to ourselves, unjustifiably and unprovoked, that brought us here
The article "Overview of the State" by Jevrem Grujić was printed in Zemun in 1849 because censorship banned it in Serbia. The words dedicated to "inner liberation" are still very relevant today, and it is not at all in favor of today's "mature" generations that today's youth have to repeat them as if we are not 170 years away from the time of their origin. In short: "For internal liberation, our people must be presented: What is it as a nation, what rights should it have? - What is the government, why and by whom, and what are its limits? Tell it precisely: What does it mean for a people to live in a state and invite them to live like that too"
In a society in which for more than thirty years there has been a deafening silence compared to the nineties, in which we are surrounded by men who carry unprocessed traumas from the battlefield, every honest word that contributes to coping, especially said in a moment of deep crisis and the search for justice, is healing
Pisistratus had his staff and distributed money from the state budget for better cultivation of olives, development of trade and export, construction of roads, repair of the city's water supply. And then the learned aristocrat Cleisthenes returned from political emigration
It is an additional problem when you need to get rid of an autocrat or a dictator whose last name rhymes with yours. Many people then do not realize that various freedoms can be denied to them despite the fact that there is no external invader, that, for example, freedom of speech almost completely disappears, which, as we have seen in Serbia in recent decades, we recognize above all through the suppression of media freedoms
The Austrian consul was a welcome guest in Jevrem's house, where the opponents of Prince Mihailo came, the British Hodges influenced Serbia to get the Constitution, and the Russian Vashchenko helped overthrow Prince Milos
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina temporarily suspended the implementation of the Rulebook on the study of history for the ninth grade in the Republic of Srpska, due to fears that its implementation could cause further divisions among students of different ethnic groups.
Not only examples from the territories of Kosovo and Serbia, but all over the world, prove that archeology is day by day ceasing to be only a scientific discipline about the human past, but also a weapon used to appropriate territories
The textbook "Russian History, 1945 - the beginning of the 21st century" is the first officially approved history book to be used in Russian schools that mentions recent events such as the invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022
Volcanic lava may be engulfing Hawaii, but the music doesn't stop playing! Hawaiian music represented a quarter of the first gramophone records released in the early 20th century, directly influenced the creation of country music, and was highly regarded by non-Nazi Germans during World War II. Moreover, a Prussian concertmaster of the military orchestra first recorded it and then modernized it, allowing the whole world to enjoy the music of the lost paradise
How they celebrated the New Year, how the inhabitants of the states that were created on the territory of the Ottoman Empire lived at the beginning of the last century, at the international exhibition "Cities on the Move"
Belgraders were transported by horse-drawn trams of an unknown manufacturer, Belgian BBC and PPC, German Siemens and AEG, Czech Škoda and Tatra, Italian Breda and Divag, Yugoslav "Đuro Đaković", "Jesenice" and Goša, and soon, apparently, by the Spanish KAF tram
The popularity of this company's motorcycles today is greater than ever, despite the great competition from Italian and Japanese manufacturers, primarily because of the cult that has been building around it for a whole century. Currently, more than 650.000 motorcycles of this manufacturer, of various types and years, are being "ridden" in the world. No other motorcycle manufacturer can boast such a result
