One of the Italian Campaign’s most noteworthy warriors remained anonymous for decades — partly because his mission was top-secret, and partly due to him being already dead at the time. Sicily was, as Winston Churchill described it, Europe’s “soft underbelly”: pivotal for taking Italy, reclaiming the Mediterranean and driving north into the Continent. But how … Lire la suite
Il secondo paese più grande dell’America meridionale è noto per la sua natura meravigliosa e la sua cultura vivace. Ma la particolarità delle città più grandi è che ognuna di esse offre luoghi culturali come chiese e musei. Allo stesso tempo, è un punto di accesso a una varietà di meraviglie e attività naturali. Inoltre, … Lire la suite
Daniel Ogden June 07, 2022 0 Comments 13602 views Share Sleep and Death carry Sarpedon, who was killed while fighting for the Trojans in the Trojan War, on this early fifth-century B.C. amphora. The ancients associated sleep, dreams and death with the ability to predict the future, perhaps because they believed the future was hatched … Lire la suite
From the 1709 Battle of Poltava through the end of World War II, Russia has excelled in backing up its more mobile forces with powerful and numerous artillery. From the time President Vladimir Putin launched his “special military operation” into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, big guns have been a mainstay, both for battery fire … Lire la suite
A 20-foot portrait of a uniformed Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee — with a slave guiding his horse in the background – has remained towering over cadets in the library of the U.S. Military Academy, better known as West Point. That is most likely to change, and soon, according to Politico. A commission that was … Lire la suite
Waystation excavations study early trade and globalization Nathan Steinmeyer June 06, 2022 0 Comments 659 views Share Petra, the center of an ancient spice trade route. Courtesy Glenn Corbett. For more than six centuries, the ancient spice trade route passed through much of the Arabian Peninsula and beyond. Centered on the Nabatean city of Petra, … Lire la suite
Where Is Sodom? Genesis 13, archaeology and Biblical geography provide clues Biblical Archaeology Society Staff June 05, 2022 45 Comments 83036 views Share According to the Bible, “the men of Sodom were wicked” (Genesis 13, verse 13). For its many sins, God destroyed Sodom and all the inhabitants of the “cities of the plain” in … Lire la suite
Perché no? Cosa non va? È così bello che avremo bisogno di nuovi aggettivi per descrivere questi paesaggi sorprendenti e panoramici, una ricca storia e la cultura unica. E c’è molto di più: antiche città e sentieri, siti di mummie sparse in tutto il paese, il lago più alto del mondo e il canyon più … Lire la suite
Amid the Platinum Jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year-reign as British monarch, retired Capt. Andrew Clark of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment recalled the day it all began — and the role he played himself. When the queen was crowned on June 2, 1953, he marched in the procession. Clark, born in Coventry in 1934, was … Lire la suite
It was perhaps the politest “battle” in human history. Upon entering Guam’s harbor on June 20, 1898, instead of experiencing the expected whizz of bullets and the booms of a cannonade, U.S. Navy Capt. Henry Glass and his crew aboard the re-commissioned cruiser USS Charleston were greeted on the beaches by curious residents who mistook … Lire la suite
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