If in the Iberian Peninsula the British controlled the Rock of Gibraltar, since the 18th century during the War of Spanish Succession, at the beginning of World War II they controlled Eastern Gibraltar, Singapore , in Southeast Asia. On December 8, 1941, the Japanese began the Malay Campaign , at t
There are times when some people do not care about their lives, putting honor first, even if their doom is certain. One such case was that of the 21 brave men of Saragari who found themselves, each one, fighting with 500 opponents. Saragari was a small village in British India. Today it belongs t
By Rainer Sousa From the 1870s onwards, Imperial Brazil began to suffer different types of opposition to its regime and the defense of the installation of a Republic in its place. At first, we can think that this situation demonstrated the crisis of the system that consolidated the independence and
A team led by the University of Arizona has managed to establish that the temperature of the last ice age, the last glacial maximum 20,000 years ago, was about 46 degrees Fahrenheit (about 7 degrees Celsius). Their findings allow climate scientists to better understand the relationship between risi