It also shows helicopter gunship pilots from a Kabul-based Air Assault Unit flying missions, the patrolling of the Salang mountain pass and the military hospital in Kabul. Soviet General Lev Serebrov referred to the making of the film as "An experiment in glasnost". The film won the Blue ...
Today both men and women compete in individual and team competition in three events: foil (a sword with a light, flexible blade of rectangular cross section tapering to a blunt point), sabre (heavy military sword with a long cutting edge and, often, a curved blade), and épée (blunted ...
More specifically, the Founding Fathers managed to defy conventional wisdom in four unprecedented achievements: first, they won a war for colonial independence against the most powerful military and economic power in the world; second, they established the first large-scale republic in the modern worl...
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In 1950s Iceland, brothers Baddi (Baltasar Kormákur) and Danni (Svein Geirsson) live in an abandoned American military facility, prisoners of their low social status. But the outside world intrudes into their isolated community when Baddi returns from a trip to the U.S. with Elvis Presley ...
While women had achieved high military and political status many thousands of times under previous dynasties, they were difficult to attain and required great merit before they were even considered for those statuses. Under the Jing dynasty, women's rights and status were elevated to equal of that...
General Sir Banastre Tarleton was a Roman demigod son of Bellona, and a British soldier and politician, best remembered for his military service during the American War of Independence.[8] BellonaBellona is the Roman goddess of war, destruction, devastation, and the mother of Reyna and Hylla ...
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armed forces of military mass murder, to invade the homelands of other human peoples and families in the insane belief that they are perpetrating and participating in these mass murders for some purpose that can somehow be related to the right and the good and/or for peace or justice or ...
: a senior military commander who incited the Lord of Chang’an’s rebellion, only to flee to the kingdom of Yan when it failed.Lao Ai (d. 238 b.c.e.): lover of Zhao Ji, Queen Zhuangxiang of Qin, and father of two of her children, who died after plotting to place his ...