The Vikings , led by the explorer Leif Erikson, are considered today as the first Europeans to have discovered America, five hundred years before Christopher Columbus. Around the year 1000, Icelanders established in Greenland indeed approached the shores of North America, naming the lands they encou
The term Streltsi was used to describe a soldier who carried a handgun and fired with it. The Streltsy were an infantry corps, equipped, initially, with arquebuses and then muskets, formed for him by Ivan the Terrible, in 1552. It was the first regular corps of the Russian Army and was formed accord
Aircraft:Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star.Manufacturer:Lockheed Aircraft Corp.Type:fighter-bomber.Year:1948.Engine:General Electric J33-A-23 turbojet engine with 2,086 kg of thrust.Wingspan:11, 85 m.Length:10.51 m.Height:3.45 m.Take-off weight:7,646 kg.Maximum speed:933 km/h at 2,133m altitude.Maximum o
On February 12, 1873, Amadeus I, the most democratic king that Spain knew in the 19th century, took his suitcases and undertook a trip to Portugal. Not without first making it very clear what he thought of the Spanish: “If Spains enemies were foreigners, I would be the first to fight them, but all t