“War is too serious a matter to be left in the hands of the military” . The ingenious phrase pronounced by the former prime minister of the French Third Republic, Georges Clemenceau, has come true many times throughout history with fudges such as the charge of the Light Brigade, the landing at the B
• STOCKPHOTO “There are two liquors very agreeable to the human body, the wine within, the oil without. These liquids, products of two trees, are excellent; but oil is a necessary object. This assertion by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History was right:olive oil was an essential product in the
Elymais , an ancient Parthian vassal state located east of the lower Tigris and usually as part of the larger district Susiana is viewed . It covered much of the area of the biblical region of Elam, which roughly corresponds to the modern region of Khūzestān in the Iran matches . Alth
The Kings German Legion or K.G.L is the name that designates all the Hanoverian military units formed in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland between 1803 and 1816. Origins In 1714, Anne, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland died without leaving an heir. In application of the act of succes