The only years that trade dollars were minted were from 1873-1885, and the only mint to produce them was the San Francisco mint.
The graves of skeletons of eight to twelve feet! Near a place called Arzachena in the northern part of the province of Sardinia in western Italy, there is a site called Coddu Visiu, from where about 800 giant-graves of the Norage-era have been found. These are called megalithic tombs. Local people
We know the personal investment of Napoleon III to ensure that the French army was equipped with a truly modern rifle; it will be the rifle model 1866, said Chassepot. Unfortunately the effort stopped there and the handgun did not follow, as it is true that it had never had any real tactical value a
Since 1613, when Mikhail Romanov, the first tsar of the eponymous dynasty, ascended the throne, the question of further modernization of the Russian Army was raised. Already in the preceding 14 years (the time of trouble, as it is known in Russian history), from 1599 when Ivans son and successor Feo
One of the main collateral damage of wars is the destruction of historical and artistic heritage. Despite the precautions taken to protect the monuments -let us remember that emblematic image of La Cibeles covered with sandbags-, bombardments or fire sometimes deteriorate, if not completely eliminat