The heavy plow, also known as the moldboard plow, was a major innovation in early medieval agriculture. It allowed farmers to plow deeper and more efficiently, which led to increased crop yields.
n Paris sustains, the year 885, a cruel siege of eleven months against the Normans. The Parisians, commanded by Eudes, Count of Paris, son of Robert the Strong, Duke of France and Count of Anjou, and Bishop Gozlin, heroically defend their city.Eudes, seeing the exhausted, pierces the enemy lines, j
On the surface, submarines drawn like the Albacore do not steer very easily because this rounded bow rather pushes the water than it carves its way through it. In diving, its a different story and, as one of the first American nuclear submarine commanders said, The only thing we havent done is come
The Duchy of Oldenburg was one of the small German states that made up the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. It extended over a small area on the western shores of the Baltic, north of Bremen. The small duchy had a small army, consisting of only one infantry company and some garrison forces
From the outset of the Revolution, contemporaries wondered about its links with the intellectual evolution of the century that preceded it. The Revolution, daughter of the Enlightenment? Apparently, yes. The work of the Constituent Assembly often seems to echo the writings of philosophers:emphasis o