This Time I Know What to Expect - Trench Warfare; Martin Is Much Better Prepared for His Second Grand Tour
Owen’s use of the Latin words ‘Dulce ET Decorum Est: Pro patria mori’, meaning “It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country”, as an irony for his poem which challenges the ‘zest’ of those using the emotions of patriotism and glory to blanket the horrors of war. This al...
. Jacob, who became Israel, meaning “ Prince of God” . Peter, who went from Petros (pebble) to Petra (boulder). Conclusion: names matter. They carry a spiritual promise. Apparently from Adam on. We all know God himself named Adam: And the Lord God said, “It is not good that ...
. Jacob, who became Israel, meaning “ Prince of God” . Peter, who went from Petros (pebble) to Petra (boulder). Conclusion: names matter. They carry a spiritual promise. Apparently from Adam on. We all know God himself named Adam: And the Lord God said, “It is not good that ...
In a simple answer: death. Big traumatic events can often cause opinions to change on many subjects. Not only that, but war had changed so much since the last big glorified war that soldiers were not prepared for what they would be facing. Poison gas and trench warfare did not exist the...
What is ToWW I about? Tactics of World War One focuses on small group tactics in the World War One era. The games battles are squad-based, meaning that you control entire squads instead of individual soldiers. With more than half a dozen individual units per faction, from regular infantry...
A more general impact is that the circadian rhythms of dwarves are more flexible than those of humans. While it’s important to maintain a regular schedule, day and night have little meaning for the Mror. Mror communities are active at all hours, and major Mror businesses are continuously ...
When you enter the military you go through what is called “basic training”. This training is not a series of PowerPoint presentations on guns and grenades with the hope that you’ll know what to do the day of a battle. No, they actually put guns and grenadesin your handsso that when...
This Film Is Anglo-Centric Virtually all footage and interviews used in the film come from Britain’s Imperial War Museums (IWM). Most of the interviews were recorded with veterans in the 1960s and ‘70s, meaning the story here is told by British veterans presumably approved by the IWM, wh...
Death Traps, by Belton Y. Cooper, is the story of an ordnance officer and his duty of finding and assessing the damage of the United States main battle tank, the m4 Sherman. Cooper sings the most unsung song through history, the heroism of maintenance and supply units. What good is the...