Bismark is reputed to have said something like "Only God and I understood the full Schleswig-Holstein Question and after all this time I'm not...
Some still use an 'orse and cart. The 'structure' is known as a bendy tent.
Irish travellers used to make something very similar - covered with a tarpaulin - the one in the OP looks like it might have been one of these.
Moreover the French had already proven with their shenanigans over promoting an independent Rhineland state just how far they were prepared/not...
If there was a soldier who was a sniper in a tree near Monty's field HQ he must have already had ample opportunity to pot some senior Allied...
I always knew this as the Loon. It was the precursor of the post war Matador and the USN's Regulus 1 which substituted a disposable turbojet for...
Yes - the first confirmed victim was a woman fire fighter
A senior Beirut journalist on the Beeb today was saying that the corruption and incompetence dated from when government responsibilities were...
Corona viruses do better in cold weather!
The official count of bodies found and injured died is already past the 200 mark
Exactly. Just because one or two got through relatively lightly it was not possible to suffer the attrition on continued heavy losses
Well as Miss Davis said "He would wouldn't he?"
Yes that's the theory Cave Brown promulgated. It's very unlikely as Ultra at Bletchly Park was dealing with little or no enciphered Luftwaffe...
Who are "they"? Britain was already going the longway to Egypt and Greece - round Africa and up the Red Sea and Suez Canal. However Germany could...
Just in case anyone has missed this this BBC item gives a good idea of how big it was Beirut: Anatomy of a lethal explosion
Probably simpler to turn it into an ornamental lake (or lagoon) and rebuild the port around it.
Very definitely on message. A recent report states that the G0 crater is of WW1 proportions. Visiting the Lochnagar mine crater south of La...
How were they intending to get up to operating speed? The V1s used a rocket propelled catapult or were air launched from He111s
Attended a seminar by John Buckley, on Monty's command style, about a year back. According to John he had a strong belief that there was a limit...
Actually waterlogged conditions can also preserve iron if the dissolved oxygen content of the water is low as is often the case in peat bogs. Rust...
