Recently, as a result of the article we published on the origin of the books in the Library of Alexandria, a somewhat fussy reader (and by the way, quite wrong) rebuked us on a social network, assuring us that those were not books, but manuscript scrolls. What he evidently did not know is that the
In 1982 Israel had invaded the territory of Lebanon. There his forces were also confronted by corresponding Syrian forces. So Israel decided to neutralize the threat of Syrian anti-aircraft missile arrays. The Soviets had given Syria many batteries. After one of their helicopters was shot down by Is
The Wolverine by Georg Emanuel Opiz (1804) • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS An image of opulence and sensuality In the Middle Ages, when the specter of hunger hung over the overwhelming majority of the population, a plump body conveyed an image of opulence and sensuality, while a emaciated body denoted dise
General Willi Bittrich, whom Model sought to reach, was the commander of the 2nd S.S. Armored Corps. Two divisions of this corps. the 9th and 10th, like the S.H.A.E.F. dreaded it and as the Dutch Resistance had reported, had just regrouped and re-equipped northeast and east of Arnhem. The 9th, under