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
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
Since the first president, George Washington, many American presidents are war heroes or lawyers. Ulysses Grant, the 18th president of the United States immediately after the Civil War, is probably the representative of the former. Civil War Hero Ulysses Grant (Ulysses is an English reading
The Inca culture it is the result of the fusion of the customs of several Andean civilizations. Many peoples settled in a territory between the Andes mountain range and the Pacific Ocean and remained isolated due to geographical conditions. However, they had domesticated cotton, used ceramics, as