With the start of the war, it was decided that the Navy, in addition to its main mission, which was to cover the sea transport of the enlisted units of the Army, to also act aggressively. Thus it was decided that two Greek destroyers, Psara and Spetsai, under the general command of the captain a
Bartholomew Roberts , also known as Black Bart Like many other pirates he was born in Wales, yet he had little else in common with them. After serving as a sailor on a slave ship, he joined the crew of Howel Davis , the pirate who captured them and from whom he would inherit his crew upon his death.
The Mints (sikka , Arabic word meaning die) were the Mint Houses of the different Taifa kingdoms (Muslim kingdoms that emerged after the abolition of the Caliphate in 1031 and later with the collapse of the Almoravid and Alhomade empires). Each one of the Taifa kinglets minted their own currency as
In 1979 Iraq had procured a nuclear reactor from France. This event had caused panic in the Middle East. During the Iran-Iraq War the Iranians had tried to destroy it but failed. It was the Israelis turn to try. The French agreed to supply Iraq with 72 kilograms of enriched uranium. On April 6, 1