May 16, 2010
THE CONFEDERATE 1864 CIVIL WAR RAID ON WASHINGTON – Gen. Jubal A. Early Again Tells His Story. The force he claims to have had – Why no assault was made on the Federal Capital – The burning of the Montgomery Balir’s House.
Gen. Jubal A. Early, of Virginia, has repeated, in a long letter, printed by the Washington National Republican, of Thursday, his story of his advance upon Washington… Continue reading
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May 14, 2010
During the Vietnam War, Americans used one of its most decisive and devastating herbicidal weapons in order to augment its forces in battlefields and cripple critical portions of the war zone favoring the enemy. An estimated 20 million gallons of herbicides were sprayed on the thick jungles of Southern Vietnam for the purpose of reducing the growth of plants and vegetations in the area thereby lessening the supply of food Continue reading
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May 2, 2010
It was through a series of unfortunate events, during WWII, that the Japanese history, particularly their swords, came into prominence. Classifying Japanese Swords has been an extremely debated subject and it still engages many conflicting views. For the uninitiated, a Japanese sword represents a technical innovation that was at least a century ahead of its generation. Unlike swords used in other parts of Asia and the Western World, Continue reading
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April 28, 2010
In 1989 when the famous Berlin Wall that separated East Germany and West Germany fell down, East Germany’s Ministry of State Security, the Stasi, which was known for secret police agencies in the world decided to destroy all the important documents which had vast secret information on documenting evidence of spying on West Germany for 40 years. When they used the Stasi’s shredder machine to destroy all documents unfortunately for Continue reading
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February 21, 2009
Afganistan is replacing Iraq as the center on the war on terror. Saudi Bin Laden and al Qaeda No. 2 Egyptian doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri are still in hiding somewhere in the tribal areas of Afganistain and Pakistain border. The terrain is tough and highly mobile units like the US Army Rangers are leading the hunt for Bin Laden and the Taliban.
The US Rangers are organized into a higly Continue reading
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