Some 12,000 years ago, something seared a vast swath of Chiles Atacama Desert with heat so intense it turned the sandy soil into vast plates of silicate glass. Now, a research team studying the distribution and composition of these glasses has reached a conclusion about the cause of hell. In a stud
Astypalea is a small island in the Greek Dodecanese, possibly a colony of Megara, where around 360 B.C. Onesicritus was born, historian and cynical philosopher follower of Diogenes of Sinope (the one who lived like a beggar, in a jar). Of all of them Onesicritus would not stand out for the rigor i
The Republic of Indonesia is a transcontinental country located in Southeast Asia and Oceania (islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean). In Indian Puranas it is called ”Dwipantara Bharat” meaning cross-sea India. This is why European historians and travelers called it Indonesia which sounds like ”Indi
No doubt the Americans possessed superior equipment to that of the Chinese. But this fact was in no way considered an advantage, quite the contrary sometimes. An example of this is the APG-30 sight. This device, expensive and sophisticated, seemed infinitely superior to the optical sights of the MiG