On August 12, 2000, the worst disaster in the history of the Russian submarine fleet occurred, the sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine and the death of all 118 crew members. During exercises of the Russian Northern Fleet in the Barents Sea, the Kursk it was to launch a torpedo without an explosi
The so-called Missile Crisis in Cuba was a conflict between the United States, the Soviet Union and Cuba in October 1962, generated as a result of the discovery by the United States of Soviet nuclear missile bases in Cuban territory. For 4 days, Kennedy secretly met with his advisers to make a decis
By Rainer Sousa The glamorization of the material culture of other peoples is a very common practice in many strongholds of western culture. Permeated by an interest that intensified in the 19th century, with the imperialist wave that determined the arrival of colonists in different parts of the pla
The Aztec defeat resulted in an offensive by the conqueror Hernan Cortez starting in the year 1519. By Me. Cláudio FernandesAfter the discovery da America by Columbus, in 1492, many navigators and adventurers hired and aided by the Spanish crown became interested and launched themselves into the wa