Russians are bursting with pride to this day when they remember the war they won with Hitler. They love to emphasize the military genius of the Soviet commanders. In reality, however, Stalins generals were a bunch of sadists, drunkards, thieves and the most ordinary idiots. In Russia, they buil
The Battle of Malplaquet , during the War of the Spanish Succession, took place on September 11, 1709 in the hamlet of Malplaquet, near Avesnes-sur-Helpe, in northern France. Appointed by Louis XIV at the head of the army of the Netherlands, Marshal de Villars faced the troops of the Grand Alliance
The Montgolfier brothers invented the first hot air balloon. On June 4, 1783, they made history by air in their hot air balloon made of canvas and paper. Three months later, the two brothers presented their balloon to King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette:the gondola carried a duck, a rooster and a s
In fictional stories, the heroes and princes are all young, heroic and handsome, always in good health, even during a plague, but in reality, things arent always like that. There have been kings, princes and war heroes who may have been young, but they werent handsome or were not in good health. T