In the Soviet Union only the party was owed obedience. 13-year-old Pavlik Morozov had learned this well. According to Soviet historiography, which made him a hero, Morozov belonged to the Pioneers childrens party organization. Stalinist history states that little Morozov, born in Gerasimovka in t
In 1970, Egypt and Israel were not, typically, at war. In fact, however, the hostilities had not ceased after the Six Day War. This phase, called the War of Attrition, continued for years on land, air and sea. Having been defeated state by state and having lost the Sinai Peninsula, the Egyptians
Egypts Antiquities Minister Khaled El Enani announced, from Giza, the discovery of an Old Kingdom necropolis, approximately 4,500 years old. According to Mustafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and director of the team of the Egyptian Archaeological Mission that made
Dmitry Ofharenko was born in Eastern Ukraine, near Kharkiv. His father was a carpenter and he himself had no appeal to learning until he reached the fifth grade. However, what he learned well from his father was how to handle the axe... In July 1941, the Soviet Union was going through dramatic ti
A small ship is extremely difficult to escape from the enemy when he is overwhelmingly superior in sea and air. This was also the case in World War II. On February 27, 1942, in the Java Sea, the Japanese crushed the allied naval forces. Only four small Dutch vessels survived the disaster. But thr
Στις 5 Σεπτεμβρίου 1972 Παλαιστίνιοι τρομοκράτες επιτέθηκαν στην ολυμπιακή ομάδα του Ισραήλ στο Μόναχο και σκότωσαν 11 μέλη της. Φυσικά θα έπρεπε να είναι κανείς αφελής για να πιστέψει ότι οι Ισραηλινοί θα άφηναν αναπάντητη μια τέτοια πρόκληση. Δύο ημέρες μετά την σφαγή η πρωθυπουργός του Ισραήλ
Ένα σπάνιο βίντεο του 1962 παρουσιάζει την εντατική δραστηριότητα στο κατάστρωμα του αμερικανικού αεροπλανοφόρου USS “Shangri La” (CVA-38), ένα από τα 24 αεροπλανοφόρα της κλάσης Essex του αμερικανικού ναυτικού. Το αεροπλανοφόρο ανήκε τότε στη δύναμη του 6ου Στόλου και εκτελούσε αποστολή στη Μεσό
Την αυγή της 18ης Δεκεμβρίου 1961 ινδικά αεροσκάφη πέρασαν τα σύνορα και βομβάρδισαν ένα αεροδρόμιο και διάφορες άλλες θέσεις. Την ίδια ώρα Ινδοί αλεξιπτωτιστές υποστηριζόμενοι από άρματα και πυροβολικό διέσχιζαν τα αυτά σύνορα. Εισέβαλαν στο Πακιστάν ή στην Κίνα; Σε καμία από τις δύο χώρες. Το έδαφ
Stephen the Great of Moldavia, cousin of the famous Vlad Dracul, was one of the great personalities of the late Middle Ages and a fanatical opponent of the Turks. The area of Bessarabia was a point of friction between the Moldavian ruler and the Ottoman sultan Mohammed II. The Moldavian-Turkish co
Ludmila Pavlichenko was born on July 12, 1916. She was Ukrainian and everything seemed to lead a life like all girls her age. But fate had decided otherwise for her. She was to become the leading Soviet female sniper with 309 hits. Pavlichenko had learned to aim from an early age, being a member
On June 22, 1944, the Soviets launched Operation Bagration, their largest offensive on the Eastern Front to date, with the aim of crushing the German forces in Belorussia. By July 15, the Soviets had reached Grodno, in what is now western Belarus, on the border with Poland. The next day they occu
In 1095 Pope Urvanos proclaimed the crusade to expel the Muslims from the Holy Land. For the following years the crusades continued. In 1212 a 12-year-old, Stephen of Cloyes-sur-le-Loir, was received by the French king in Paris. Stephanos was followed by 30,000 children who started with the visio
Human tissue from prisoners executed by the Nazi regime and used in anatomy experiments will be buried in Berlin on Monday after three years of research on samples handed over by descendants of Dr. Hermann Steeve, the director of the Anatomy Institute of the University of Berlin during the Third Rei
Η «Επίθεση Μπρουσίλοφ» αποτέλεσε τη μεγαλύτερη ρωσική στρατιωτική επιτυχία στον Α’ Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο. Ωστόσο και αυτή κατορθώθηκε να αμαυρωθεί από την ανικανότητα ορισμένων Ρώσων στρατηγών. Η επίθεση του στρατηγού Μπρουσίλοφ, ομολογουμένως του καλύτερου Ρώσου ανωτάτου διοικητή κατά τον Α’ ΠΠ, ξεκίνησ
Στη Μαίντα της Καλαβρίας Βρετανοί και Γάλλοι συγκρούστηκαν για μια ακόμα φορά κατά τη διάρκεια των Ναπολεόντειων Πολέμων. Εκεί καταφάνηκε για μια ακόμα φορά η βρετανική υπεροχή, αλλά και καταδείχθηκε η φρίκη του πολέμου μέσα από τις προσωπικές διηγήσεις των ανδρών. Με το πρώτο φως της 4ης Ιουλίο
The Soviet offensive in the sector of the German 4th Army began on June 23, 1944, as part of the larger offensive in Belorussia (Operation Bagration). Forces of the 3rd Belorussian Front acted on its northern flank, which broke through the German XXVII Army Corps (SS) of the German 4th Army. The
The successful test of the first Soviet atomic bomb RDS-1 in August 1949 inspired the countrys leadership to proceed with the acquisition of a thermonuclear weapon, better known as a hydrogen bomb. The Soviets had access to the American plans thanks to the German scientist Klaus Fuchs. The projec
The Soviet 63rd Rifle Division (MT) was one of the major units of the 5th Army, forming the extreme right of its formation. The 63rd MT had three infantry regiments, one artillery regiment and was reinforced with an assault gun battalion. Before the attack he was reinforced with an additional as
The Tatars of Kazan, together with their fellow-citizens of Astrakhan and Crimea, were, for centuries, the main rivals of Russia. The Tatars, descendants of the Mongols of the Golden Horde, who conquered Russia, for about two centuries, raided Russian lands at regular intervals, spreading terror and
Germany was one of the pioneers in jet aircraft technology. In the fall of 1940 the Air Ministry issued a specification for a high-speed, long-range jet-powered aircraft. Of all the German aircraft manufacturers, only Arado responded. Arado presented the E.370 design which was a twin-engine jet a
Tancredo Neves was one of the most important characters in politics and history in the 20th century. He was present in important moments of the governments of Getúlio Vargas and João Goulart. Tancredo opposed the military during the Military Dictatorship and was one of the politicians most engaged w
The Danelaw (or Danelagh; Dena lagu in Old English, Danelov in Danish), as defined in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, is the name given to the part of Great Britain where the law of Danes” (Dane), the Viking invaders from Denmark (as well as Norway), and where this law superseded that of the Anglo-Saxons
Matamba , historical African kingdom on the Cuango River northeast of Luanda , Angola . Founded by Kimbundu-speaking people ( see Mbundu ) before the 16th century it was up to about 1550 loosely under the orbit of the Congo Kingdom . The Matamba kingdom was notable in that it
By Rainer Sousa Historically, the interest in creating the television set can be found since the 19th century. At this time, great concepts developed in mathematics, physics and chemistry were the fundamental precursors of the technology used in the creation of TV sets. Around the 1840s, several sci