He called the citizens of his nation "brothers and sisters," a term he had never used before. It was an intimacy born of the terrible crisis they shared. Stalin admitted that the enemy had succeeded in breaking through, and he urged his compatriots to annihilate the intruders with every...
archers, spearmen, etc. Once a siege tower was close enough to the defensive wall, a gangplank would be dropped between the two, allowing soldiers to rush in and attack. The biggest siege tower ever built soared at 135 feet and was as wide as 67.5 feet. The tower was named Helepolis, ...
As time went on, however, guns and gunpowder appeared in war, which greatly reduced the effectiveness of the English bows and arrows. By the time the war ended, the English had lost all the territories they had gained during the war except the French port of Calais (加来). 起初,战争对...
Right before birth, most babies are in a headfirst position in the mother's uterus. Sometimes, the baby is ina bottom-first (or feet-first) position. This is called a breech birth or breech baby. Babies can be breech early in pregnancy. Most of them turn on their own to be headfirst...
9History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. The Message Bible(MSG) 9What was will be again, what happened will happen again. There's nothing new on this earth. Year after year it's the same old thing. ...
The rifle from which they derived their fame was a hybrid of the short-barrelled guns used by immigrant Germans in their native forests and the long-barrelled smooth-bore English fowling pieces. The result was a slender, beautifully balanced, hybrid weapon with a lengthened, grooved barrel that...
They could mix unique DNA sequences in the gunpowder or (better) the primers. Then the gun, the user, the bullet and the general area where it was fired would be tagged. Of course micro tagging with DNA is patented too, but, that patent must be running out soon. ...
or a family curse that previously took his older brother and would eventually claim his son. To add to the folklore a mirror that was placed on Bruce Lee’s house to ward off evil spirits was blown away in a typhoon the day before his death. The official cause of his death was li...
Secondly, the Chinese invented gunpowder just like they invented everything else. It had spread throughout Eurasia but did not reach this continent. So the Europeans had guns. Thirdly, European diseases wiped out the majority of native population before they could even fight. Fourthly, the ...