Alfa class Project 705 Lyra Project 705 Lyra is a class of Soviet nuclear attack submarines, known in the West by its NATO code Alfa class. They were the fastest submarines in the world, and those for military use that could reach the greatest depths of diving, only the K-278 Komsomolets being able
The soldiers of the Duke of Alba burst into the world embodied on canvas by Pieter Brueghel the Elder in pictures that are partly humorous –without a certain air of social criticism– and partly bucolic, such as La boda campesina (1568), The Flemish proverbs (1559) and The wine of the feast of Saint
Cilicia , an old area Southern Anatolia which is represented by the Taurus Mountains to the north and west, the Anti-Taurus to the east, and the to the south Mediterranean . It is geographically divided into two contrasting regions, the western part being wild and mountainous and the eas
In our latitudes it is still limited, but it does exist:the really warm summer days with temperatures like in Muspelheim. Then the acrid smell and the sticky robes are the lesser of two evils, because the heat can quickly push us actors to their physical limits. Many a person has already collapsed w