When World War I broke out, Penang, Malaysia, could hardly have imagined that it could become a field of conflict between the belligerents. The German navy had a squadron in China which at the start of the war sailed to the coast of Chile. All but one ship, the light cruiser SMS Emden. Emden was
Sometimes it seems that the Nazi regime had a plan for absolutely everything, since three quarters of a century after the end of World War II, some unpublished are still being found. A good example would be the one that was revealed in mid-2017 in Chile, which would have the objective of attacking t
Lyoudmila Mikhaïlovna Pavlichenko or Lioudmyla Mykhailivna Pavlichenko (July 12, 1916 – October 10, 1974) was a Soviet sniper of World War II. Credited with 309 enemy kills, she was honored with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Born in Bila Tserkva, in the Ukrainian SSR, on July 12, 1916, Li
The site of Stonehenge, dating from the 3rd-2nd millennia BC. J.-C., has only about sixty of the 157 original megaliths. • LIST What was Stonehenge, the largest prehistoric structure in Europe, used for? Why did humans raise these circles of giant megaliths in southern England 4,500 years ago? T