A brief overview of manufacturing industry in the Messogiorno, an area of economic hardship in the south of Italy.

In other parts of Europe, particularly in the coastal areas of the Atlantic and the western side, the formation of the kingdoms and the development of national identities continued. The Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians, who were formerly part of the tribes that roamed the frontiers of the Roman Empire, had by now formed their own kingdoms. The Slavs were united under the leadership of the Czechs, while the Poles rallied behind the Duchy of Poland. The Magyars formed what we now call Hungary.

Men in Naples,the original Italian Naples that is, were caught between a rock and a hard place as they marked the turn of the year this time around.

A research paper on the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.