A flat helmet stands out among the unharvested wheat, to show us little by little, the characteristic profile of a British soldier in the Second World War . Carefully observing the environment, he raises his hand in a forward gesture that, between slight tinkles and creaks, gives way to new figures
Context Immediately after the collapse of the USSR in the fall of 1991, uncertainty reigned among US intelligence services about the attitude of the forces of the former USSR, in particular the strategic missile forces that remained under Russian command. From the United States Navys perspective, t
The Siesta (detail), by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. 1868 • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS At Vth century BC. J.-C., the Ionian philosopher Diagoras de Melos assured that it was better to die than to succumb to the charms of opium, thus alerting to a now proven danger to health:drug addiction. His warnings, however
The Sumerian Royal List is a list of kings of Mesopotamia that has been found in various archaeological and documentary artifacts, with slight variations. The best preserved of all, and the one with the longest list, is the so-called Weld-Blundell Prism, a vertical clay prism inscribed in cuneiform