On August 2, 1990, elite Iraqi Republican Guard troops invaded Kuwait. A lightning operation - in two days they had taken the entire country - that caught the international community by surprise. Although Iraq had been critical of the increase in Kuwaiti oil production that was keeping prices low an
The latter half of the 19th century was a turbulent century when new nations such as Germany, Italy and Japan were born, and France and Britain embarked on imperialism. In this era, the United States was in a period of high economic growth called the Kinpika era, and it was Rutherford, the 18th Pres
One of JFKs most trusted doctors came from a town near Bydgoszcz. Doctor Max Jacobson, until the end of the 1960s, looked after the members of the American social cream, treating them with amphetamines, methamphetamines and ... the human placenta. The exact date of birth of Max (actually Moshe) Ja
Argentina , whose official name is the Argentine Republic, is a country located in southern South America , the largest after Brazil. It is among the ten largest countries in the world. In terms of population, it is the third most populous country in South America, after Brazil and Colombia. It is