Most of the songs of Sabaton, a famous Swedish heavy metal band , deviate from the usual theme of music to tell war stories:from the battles fought by King Charles VII to the Gulf War, through the attack of the Polish winged hussars on the Ottomans in Vienna, the Charge of the Brigade Light and many
Not long ago we talked here about the Witches of the Night , the Soviet female aviator regiment of World War II. Today we are going to see the story of another unit made up of women but in the United States, similar but with the difference that its activity was in the civilian sphere and its members
Sometimes it seems that those Olympic gods really existed who, according to Greek mythology, played with the lives of humans according to their whims. In that sense, Joe Kieyoomia probably didnt know who the Moiras were, but he suffered like nobody else their gossip with the threads of life, because
In 1983, famous magician David Copperfield caused a sensation by making New Yorks Statue of Liberty disappear in a live television broadcast. It is curious that almost forty years earlier, in the midst of World War II, another illusionist also carried out a magical feat of great proportions, althoug
Searching for a lost castaway on the high seas is an arduous and often frustrating task. Unless the search area can be greatly narrowed, the task can take so long that probably when it is finally located -if it is possible to do so- it will already be dead of hypothermia, dehydration or any other ca
In the summer of 2013, Professor Timothy Koeth of the University of Maryland received an unusual birthday present:a package containing a small black cube about two inches on a side and weighing about five pounds. An accompanying note explained both succinctly and enigmatically:“Taken from the reacto
When we talk about European battles of the Second World War we basically imagine Germans or Italians fighting against the British, Americans or Russians and we can extend it to the French, Dutch, Balkans or Scandinavians. But what never crosses our minds is the Wehrmacht fighting soldiers from Luxem
They made a good first impression, but I have no faith in the fighting ability inherent in the race. This was what General Patton said after reviewing the 761st Tank Battalion in 1944, on the eve of its baptism of fire. The famous soldier did nothing but reflect the general opinion of the American
All history buffs, or at least those who especially like war history, remember a date that marked a before and after in World War II:June 6, 1944. That day is usually called by its name in key, the D-Day , the one in which Operation Overlord began; that is, the continental invasion of the allied for
On the night of October 24, 1944, in the last year of World War II, the submarine USS Tang was sinking during the attack on a Japanese convoy in the Taiwan Strait. Curiously, she had been hit by a torpedo of her own that made a circular trajectory and exploded astern of her. Most of the crew perishe
In the first half of 1945 the Japanese press began to spread some surprising messages:their bombings had set the forests of North America ablaze, causing ten thousand deaths and throwing the American population into panic. Obviously, it was propaganda from the Japanese intelligence services in a pha
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
In the spring of 2003, the Norwegian minesweeperKNM Tyr , alerted by some fishermen, he discovered an unusual wreck near the island of Fedje, in the North Sea and 150 meters deep, which he had been searching for five years. It was the U-864, a German submarine from World War II that was the protagon
There are a few myths that revolve around a character or several condemned to do something eternally. It doesnt take much memory to bring to mind Sisyphus and the huge rock that Zeus forced him to push to the top of a hill, rolling down the slope at the last moment and having to start over and over
In the movie Farewell to the King (Farewell to the king), directed by John Milius in 1988, Nick Nolte plays an American soldier who, fleeing the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, ends up in Borneo. There he stays to live with the Dayaks and ends up being their king, leading the resistance on the
Collective behavior tends to be gregarious, something that manifests itself in both the aggressive and passive aspects. Some examples of the latter are found in the great massacres caused by wars or genocidal policies, in which the victims seem resigned to their fateful fate. That was precisely one
Although the intelligence services were consecrated above all in the Cold War, they had already played more or less important roles throughout history. In that sense, it is possible that one can be considered among the best agents that have existed, one who acted during the Second World War, providi
Some time ago we dedicated an article to the unprecedented case of Vesna Vulović, a Serbian stewardess who became famous in 1972 and is registered in the Guinness Book for having survived the fall of her plane from 10,000 meters. But this is not a unique case; several more are known, one of them jus
If any reader is a nautical enthusiast and has a boat, they will know that there are some places where it is dangerous to navigate. One of them is in the estuary of the River Thames, at the height of the town of Sheerness. The Nore sandbank is located there, of very bad fame as we will see. But what
Perhaps the thing was no more than a mere anecdote for Hitler, but in 1942 the Iroquois Confederation declared war on Germany, apart from what the Washington government did. A sample of the autonomy with which this already old entity works, formerly also called the League of Six Nations, and that to
Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, GCB, GCVO, born May 31, 1827 and died April 9, 1905, is a British general best known for having started the Anglo-Zulu War, during which the British army suffered one of its most resounding defeats (Battle of Isandlwana, January 22, 1879 ). Youth Fr
A species of giant two-humped camel, Camelus knoblochi is known to , lived for about a quarter of a million years in Central Asia. A new study published in Frontiers in Earth Science shows that the last refuge of C. knoblochi it was in Mongolia, until about 27,000 years ago. In Mongolia, the latter
Anarchism in the Old Republic had a very strong presence. He was formed in the midst of urban workers unions in centers such as São Paulo. By Me. Cláudio FernandesIn the early years of its establishment, the Republic had to face, in Brazil, a series of revolts in predominantly rural, sertaneja area
The Balkan Peninsula of South-Eastern Europe has its own geographical and historical identity. From the beginning of the fifteenth century to the end of the sixteenth century, Ottoman Turks continuous invasions and empire-expansion on Eastern European states posed a great threat to the political sec