L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada, is widely accepted as the only confirmed Viking settlement in North America. It was discovered in 1960 by Norwegian archaeologist Helge Ingstad and his wife, Anne Stine Ingstad. This site dates to the 11th century, roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas.
An old map of the world and continents from 1635. An unusual cartographic curiosity from the archives of history. See a detailed 17th century map of the world by Dutch cartographer Willem Blaeu. Map of the 17th century world This remarkable old world map was compiled on the basis of the atlas o
Goumier is a term used for Moroccan soldiers, who served in auxiliary units attached to the French army, between 1908 and 1956. The term has also occasionally been used to indicate native soldiers in the French army of Sudan French and Upper Volta during the colonial era. The word comes from the M
Battalion formed in 1940, it was engaged in the operations of Free France from the start:from the Dakar fiasco to the fighting in the Levant, it was transformed into an anti-aircraft battalion, it assumed the anti-aircraft defense of the entrenched camp of Bir Hakeim, it followed the future which 1s
The Treaty of Versailles, after the end of World War I, imposed on defeated Germany the surrender of the extremely powerful fleet it had managed to assemble at that time. The German navy persisted with very few warships. Nevertheless, in the 1930s plans began to be made for new powerful naval units,