Did children go to school in the 19th century?

In many parts of the world, the 19th century saw the development of formal education systems, and children (usually boys, initially) began attending primary school. But the overall rate of school enrollment was generally low.

What are the contents of Old World?

What is the value of an 1865 Vittorio Emanuele II Coin?

Project Iceworm:The Secret Missile Base on the Ice of Greenland (vid.)
The “Iceworm” plan was one of the most ambitious designed by the US during the Cold War. It involved the creation of secret missile launch bases under the ice of Greenland, without the consent of Denmark to which the island belonged. The Americans goal was to develop mobile medium-range ballistic
Convair XF2Y-1 Sea Dart
The project in itself was not original:several nations had already thought, with success, of making seaplane fighters.However, it became original when the Americans imagined employing a jet fighter aircraft. endowed with supersonic characteristics. Although it never made it past the prototype stage,
World War II:"Gideon's Force", unorthodox war against the Italians
The “Gideon Force” was a special unit formed by a specialist in… special operations, then Major Ordy Charles Wingate, later father of the famous “Chidits”. This special unit operated against the Italians in East Africa and its men were mainly Ethiopian guerrillas. The Italians occupied Ethiopia in 1
The clash of spades (III). Infantry Tactics in the Thirty Years' War
Traditional historiography, especially Anglo-Saxon, establishes a manifest contrast between the Dutch school and a supposed “Spanish-German” school. Actually, it is possible to speak, rather, of three schools, the Dutch, the Spanish and the German , given that, as we observed in the previous chapter