Perhaps not as much as we might like to think. Many of our ideas of classical antiquity are distorted through centuries of fiction, movies, and propaganda, as you will learn from these five fascinating and often surprising facts about the Roman Empire. If any of this is news to you, you ...
Just as one example, in 1914, French soldiers went into battle wearing blue pants, red tops, and white gloves - the same uniforms used in the Napoleonic Wars a century earlier. Soldiers marched in tight formations, vulnerable to massed machine gun fire. And many of the weapons they were us...
Battle of the Boyne (Northern Ireland only) – 12 July Summer Bank Holiday St Andrew’s Day (Scotland only) – 30 November Christmas Day – 25 December Boxing Day – 26 December Hogmanay (Scotland only) – 31 December [9] [9] http:/www.expatarrivals.com/the-united-kingdom/public-...
The Forsaken and the horde stand together in battle, the USSR and Nazi Germany only met eachother in battle as enemies. -- Out of curiosity: Why is this article named "Forsaken" instead of "Undead"? Undead is the best name we can come up to describe the playable race itself, and ...
In today'a NY Times, reporter Selena Roberts has an excerpt from her book on the Billie Jean King--Bobby Riggs Battle of the Sexes tennis match. The excerpt tells the story of the earlier match between Riggs and Margaret Court, which Riggs won handily. It is a fascinating look at an ea...
You know him as: The perfect warrior king who ruled Great Britain during a Golden Age with Merlin at his side but fell to treachery and now sleeps, waiting for his land’s hour of need (or else has succumbed to his wounds after the Battle of Camlann). He’s a legendary and somewhat...
Just as one example, in 1914, French soldiers went into battle wearing blue pants, red tops, and white gloves - the same uniforms used in the Napoleonic Wars a century earlier. Soldiers marched in tight formations, vulnerable to massed machine gun fire. And many of the weapons they were us...
Just as one example, in 1914, French soldiers went into battle wearing blue pants, red tops, and white gloves - the same uniforms used in the Napoleonic Wars a century earlier. Soldiers marched in tight formations, vulnerable to massed machine gun fire. And many of the weapons they were us...