Remembrance Day today, August 6, 2020, as it marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb in human history. It was 8:15 (Japan time) when the Little Boy atomic bomb leveled Hiroshima. The bomb claimed the lives of approximately 140,000 people, while 69% of the buildings we
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate World War I peace signed on 3 March 1918 between the government of Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey) at Brest-Litovsk (now Brest, Belarus). In the midst of the civil war provoked by the Russian Revolution, Lenin had to acce
Some time ago we dedicated an article to the pigs that in ancient times were used to scare war elephants, according to references by Pliny the Elder, Procopius of Caesarea and Claudius Eliano (even engulfed in flames, according to Polyenus). So if we talk about the use of pigs against ships in World
The Puckle gun could be the first functional machine gun in history. Designed in 1717 by British inventor, jurist and author James Packle. Pakls machine gun, as it was officially called, was a weapon between a revolver and a light gun. It had a single barrel, but also a rotating breech with 6-11