When World War I broke out, Penang, Malaysia, could hardly have imagined that it could become a field of conflict between the belligerents. The German navy had a squadron in China which at the start of the war sailed to the coast of Chile. All but one ship, the light cruiser SMS Emden. Emden was
The francisque is a throwing ax that was used by the Merovingian and Carolingian Franks between the 5th and 8th centuries. Etymology The name francisca appears for the first time in the book Etymologiarum sive originum, libri XX by Isidore of Seville (v.570 – 636). It is the feminine of the adjecti
Ludmila Pavlichenko was born on July 12, 1916. She was Ukrainian and everything seemed to lead a life like all girls her age. But fate had decided otherwise for her. She was to become the leading Soviet female sniper with 309 hits. Pavlichenko had learned to aim from an early age, being a member
Greater Zimbabwe , extensive stone ruins of an African City from Iron Age . Its in the southeast Zimbabwe , about 30 km southeast of Masvingo (formerly Fort Victoria). The central area of the ruins covers 80 hectares, making Great Zimbabwe the largest of more than 150 great stone