Britain never saw a compelling reason to take them. On the other hand, the Faroes were strategic to Denmark, because of their supply route to Iceland and Greenland. So it was probably the fact that ...

Here is the org chart. People had all kinds of jobs. One of the interesting thing about engineering before the digital age is that there were whole divisions of workers making graphs and ...

Yes. As a matter of fact, 1980 was a pivotal election where the anti-establishment electorate and younger people started to vote conservative. Like Barry Goldwater and Donald Trump he was seen as an ...

By counterintelligence and air superiority. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Long_Jump The Axis allegedly was planning to assassinate Allied leaders at the Tehran Conference. The plot was ...

The earliest map was the L'Enfant Plan, made before the city existed. Here is a collection of all the important city maps, going back to 1792.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kohima Meanwhile, the commander of the British Fourteenth Army, Lieutenant General William Slim, belatedly realised (partly from Japanese documents that ...

Short answer: In addition to the above, the Ticonderoga is a large vessel suited for open ocean, while the Burke is more of a littoral combatant. Long answer: The important feature of both vessels ...

M. King Hubbert predicted that Soviet oil production would decline as it did, thus implying an economic collapse. It seems that the CIA took Hubbert’s methodology seriously and applied it to the ...

https://m.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/396myg/how_did_the_romans_prevent_their_aqueducts_from/ Aqueducts did, in some cases, freeze over. Aqueducts were built underground in the northern ...

HE had little to do with the outcome. Japan failed mainly because of American air power and Japan's refusal to press the attack. Here is a diagram of a typical battleship, an Iowa class. As you can ...

Yes. http://www.pbs.org/pov/afghanistanyear1380/the-horror-of-landmines/ In northern Iraq, during the Persian Gulf War, for instance, we observed six casualties from the explosion of a Valmara-69. ...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-wwii-german-army-was-80-horse-drawn-business-lessons-from-history/ Up until 1943 the Wermacht was only 20% motorized. However, this understates the importance of ...

About 10,000 ancient texts survive, which would require around 4-8 m2 of floor space stacked 1.8m high. The texts would be primarily from the Roman and Greek periods. http://www.roger-pearse.com/...

The definition of "democracy" used today is generally "whatever the US state department labels as a democracy". Hunter gatherer groups usually practiced some sort of democracy, but this isn't ...

Taken from THE INDUSTRIAL RAILWAY RECORD. Corpet Louvet 1736 of 1927 40.005 of the Chemin de Fer Dakar-Niger, Corpet Louvet 1736 of 1927, was typical of a large number of metre gauge 2‑8‑2 tender ...

Link Castles were very hard to take and required several months of siege and a numerically superior force to take. It was really a logistical battle between the siege force and the castle. If the ...

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/oldest-pharaoh-carvings_n_2271909.html Narmer's tomb and remains have never been located. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneferu http://dome.mit.edu/handle/1721.3/...

The Germans were enormously outnumbered. They were fighting an opponent with over ten times more oil production. At the time, the US was the largest oil producer in the world. Furthermore, the Allies ...

http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/12/bag-envy.html In the age of street vendors and sprawling town markets, shoppers carried purchases in their own baskets and bowls. It wasn’t until the early 1800s,...

"Country" is derived from the Latin term for "land across the river". Thus, in history, nobody really talks of "countries" if they can avoid it. But we can talk about "states". http://www.medinnus....

Was Catalonia ever a sovereign nation? Not quite, but it has come close. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Republic The Catalan Counties were de facto ruled by Barcelona and declared ...

It would be very difficult to find a full list because in the US, Jews are considered white, and large numbers of racial Jews are not Jews by religion. So I doubt there is anywhere on the internet you ...

It's possible, although very unlikely. Almost all diplomats are at least 40 years old. This means that a diplomat alive in 1971 would be 113 years old, which is a rare and newsworthy age. The ...

Stalin was likely to attack anyway, and made statements in this direction. Source: Soviet offensive plans controversy Danilov and Heinz Magenheimer examined this plan and other documents in the ...

Yes, it seems that common people were generally happy about Ivan the Terrible's rule, as far as we can tell. Source Primarily, throughout folktales, the tsar is typically described as an “ally and ...

http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/people_carnot.html The plan was to pin down the troops in their fortifications while encouraging the Austrians to split their forces. The Austrians would then be ...

http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/link-suggestion/wpcd_2008-09_augmented/wp/a/Anschluss.htm Austria ceased to exist as a fully independent nation until late 1945. A Provisional Austrian Government was ...

Before germ theory, there were similar concepts of infectious disease- bad humors, bad air, etc. Miasma theory held that decaying organic matter transmitted infectious fumes to other organic matter. ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=why+is+army+flag+backwards&oq=why+is+army+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l3.6018j0j4&client=ms-android-hms-tmobile-us&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 ...

http://www.lwfaam.net/ww2/eto/children.htm About 20k children were born, 1k of them black. The white children usually went back to America and grew up with their biological parents. The mixed ...