Tyrone , former county (until 1973), Northern Ireland . It was formed by the former counties Londonderry (north) and Fermanagh and Monaghan (south) and from the former county Armagh and Lough (See) Neagh (East). It had an area of 1,260 square miles (3,263 square kilometers). In th
Discovered in the year 2000, this codex continues to be studied by experts, who continue to discover layers and layers of hidden texts, accumulated over decades. The Novgorod Codex it is a palimpsest, a type of manuscript that has several layers of text, the result of being reused over and over aga
Portrait of Saigo Takamori by Edoardo Chiossone • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS In February 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry landed in Japan to demand that this country put an end to the total isolation it had maintained for two centuries vis-à-vis foreign countries. On that day, the steam and steel of the Nor
Minutemen is the name given to members of the Thirteen Colonies militia who swore to be ready for battle within two minutes. This term has since been used to refer to other United States military units, referring to the success and patriotism of the original minutemen. Today it is mainly used to de