1. Water turned to blood
2. Frogs
3. Gnats
4. Flies
5. Livestock disease
6. Boils
7. Hail
8. Locusts
9. Darkness
10. Death of the firstborn
One of Sibleys advantages in their offensive against Fort Union it was that, having once supervised the construction of some of the complexs buildings, he was well acquainted with the layout of its defences; the other was that news had reached him that the eight hundred men stationed at the post w
The Château de Ferney, where Voltaire lived from 1759 until his death in 1778. • DIDIER PLOWY / CENTER DES MONUMENTS NATIONAUX / PRESS SERVICE Property of the Center des Monuments Nationaux, the Château de Voltaire is located in Ferney, in Ain, not far from Geneva. Here it is again accessible to
Sharps Rifle The single-shot, breech-loading Sharps rifle was designed in 1848 by North American gunsmith Christian Sharps. It is based on a very reliable and robust breech closing mechanism called falling block. Sharps rifles, which have existed in a wide variety of versions and calibers, have alw
In the years before Pearl Harbor, Japans imperial political and military power had attacked the Chinese mainland in an attempt to annex the coastal territories and rich swaths of inland Manchuria.While studying the extension of their conquests in Asia, the Japanese leaders were aware that a war with