The only country that could feasibly put boots on the ground was the US because it has bases in the gulf region and supply lines from Pakistan. No other country could feasibly do that (the NATO allies had minimal troop presence and were basically under US command). Indian soldiers ...
All his life, Lev (Leo) Jr. strove to come out of the shadow of his famous father. He attempted to become a sculptor (and even studied with Auguste Rodin in Paris), as well as a public figure and a writer. And had Lev Tolstoy Jr. been born with a different first name and surname...
When Obama attempted to close Guantanamo, no state was willing to take in the detainees, either out of fear that a supermax prison could have a harder time holding terror suspects than it does any of it’s existing inmates, or because the political optics of housing suspected terrorists were...
1649, Charles I was executed, for he attempted to overthrow Parliament. Then England was ruled by parliament’s leader, Oliver Cromwell for 11 years. 1660, Charles II restored the monarchy. Further conflicts between parliament and the king led to removal of the Scottish house of Stuart in ...
Another Anglo-Ottoman War is certainly possible, but it would more than likely be sparked by Constantinople doing something dumb (ie, inciting Islamic resistance to British rule in India, moving against the country's interests in Arabia or Iran, or trying to return Egypt to t...
is set in the world of literature but based on actual events of the time as it covers the bandit known as Robin Hood as he patrolled the Sherwood Forest around Nottingham and attempted to relieve the evil Prince John of the money that he stole from the peasants and give it back to them...
she attempted to treat a snnilar theme more solemnly and sombrely, with (to me, at leaw an ultimately repellent effect. Each book had a single theme expressed through a single character surrounded by mostly forgettable puppets. LIZ& Onzck has all the intelliince and wit of its pre- ~...