Werner Voss (April 13, 1897 – September 23, 1917) was a German World War I flying ace who died in action. 48 wins Born April 13, 1897 in Krefeld, Rhineland-Westphalia, in Thirty kilometers from the Netherlands, Werner Voss seemed destined to follow the path of his father, a dyer, when the First Wor
The stereotype of the tyrannical king, capricious and insensitive to the suffering of the people is true to a certain extent and almost always in times after the origin of that institution, when it was the guarantor of the survival of his people. A good example could be the Chinese Shāng Tāng, who e
The term Norman is nowadays often equated with Vikings. While thats not correct, its not far off either, because the Normans are the descendants of the Vikings who once settled in Normandy and expanded from there. How did that come about? For this we travel back about 1100 years to northern France.
In Britain, nuclear propulsion studies had been their train until the late 1950s, but progress was slow, and in 1958 an agreement was reached with the Americans for the complete supply of a reactor. This was installed on the Dreadnought which was the first British nuclear submarine, which entered se