What happened in the Opium Wars? What new weapons were used in World War II? What weapons were used in the Battle of Towton? Who did Russia side with in the Opium Wars? What did Britain gain from the First Opium War? What was an immediate result of the First Opium War?
One distinctive feature shown is an observation tower south of Hougoumont and East of the Mont Plaisir Farm. Its an obvious feature, and one that also appears in some of the pen and ink sketches made by the painter Richard Dighton of the battlefield after the battle. Location of Observator...
has had a mixed history. Essentially, the area has been a tug-of-war between Serbia and Albania ever since it was formerly identified as part of Yugoslavia after WW2. Ethnically, the majority of Kosovo’s inhabitants are Muslim Kosovar Albanians but in 1991, the Kosovo government in the ca...
This happened to me while I was out attacking a hive, after about 3 attacks the game did a little lag and suddenly my troops disappeared I couldn’t send them out yet I had all my power. To fix this you have to reset your game, but what if I’m not done attacking and when I ...
In the 19th century Britain was producing opium through its colonial operations in India; opium is a highly addictive drug that is comparable to modern heroin. The British were smuggling their Indian opium into China for sale. This illicit trade, and the desire to preserve their global economic...
There are two things I wanna get into before I get started. The first is that you guys should seriously considerchecking out John and Val’s piecebefore – or after – you read my article, as they did a great job on it. My article will be a bit more on the technical side of thing...
One of the best things that happened to this project this year was the roundpole fences developed by Paul Edwards (@Amaz_ed on Twitter if you want to contact him, or let me know and I will pass it on) that will enable me to give that special feel of gaming in Scandinavia/Nordic muc...
We have waited for two years (June 2016) and now are being told there is an extension and and extension to that extension for no good reason whatsoever other than to change our minds. Secondly, it is not a few months it is years, about seven years after the public voted to leave and...
Young reporters Carl Bernstein had a tipster, then called “Deep Throat” (after the movie–look that up on your own) who refused to give them a full picture of the entire scandal from the outset, but fed them key details, always urging them to “follow the money”—good advice for ...
the War on Terror. William Colby, whom Valentine characterizes as a “homicidal maniac,” said that Phoenix was also a model for the 1965-1966 Indonesian massacres, where more than one million suspected communists were killed, many of them identified by CIA blacklists, after a...