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16-20 Kickass Random Facts 16. Empress Catherine I of Russia was a peasant girl captured as a war prize then transferred around until becoming a concubine to Peter the Great. She quickly knew how to best please him, so he married her, and later Romanovs are her descendants. After Peter’s death, she reigned in her own name. – Source 17. Leif Erikson was a Norse explorer from Iceland. He is thought to have been the first known European to have set foot on continental North America, approximat...

How the COVID-19 Vaccine Wars Will Affect US National Security Medical soldiers and airmen from the Massachusetts National Guard don proper personal protective equipment (PPE) in preparation to complete COVID-19 testing on residents at Benjamin Healthcare Center, Boston, Mass, April 7, 2020.(U.S. Air National Guard photos/Bonnie Blakely) 2 Feb 2021 Joseph V. Micallef is a best-selling military history and world affairs author, and keynote speaker. Follow him on Twitter @JosephVMicallef. It has ...

Patriotism Has No Religion, and Heres the Proof for Mohan Bhagwat to See Followers of each religion, including Hinduism, have been unpatriotic at one point or another. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. Photo: PTI/Files Religion24/Jan/2021 Rabindranath Tagore in his letter to A.M. Bose in 1908 wrote that “patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live”. In 1911, at the Cal...

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Historic painting of Saratoga battle was topic of concern during Capitol insurrection | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS January 11, 2021 A member of the U.S. Secret Service Counter Assault Team walks through the Rotunda Jan. 6. The Surrender of General Burgoyne can be seen behind him. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Shares0 One of the most jarring pictures from last Wednesday’s insurgence at the Capitol, for many, was the image of a Florida man carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern as he ...

  “LEADERSHIP IS BASED ON TRUTH AND CHARACTER. A LEADER MUST HIMSELF BE THE SERVANT OF TRUTH, AND HE MUST MAKE THAT TRUTH THE FOCUS OF A COMMON PURPOSE.” NATO Bernard Law Montgomery: Unbeatable and unbearable all text photos, copyright Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery was one of the most prominent and successful British commanders of the Second World War (1939-45). Known as ‘Monty’, he notably commanded the Allies against General Erwin Rommel in North Africa, and in the invasions...

By T.R. Sullivan Invalid date DALLAS -- Jay Liske was with a sniper unit attached to the 173rd Airborne Combat Brigade in the Kunar Province in Afghanistan. "I was over there for 15 months," Liske said. "A lot of fighting. We probably saw 650 firefights in 15 months. I think the most was 14 in one day." On Wednesday morning, Liske was one of 14 veterans and their guests who departed Dallas Love Field on a Southwest Airlines jet bound for Washington, D.C. They were up before the sun, mingling ...

Charles Paris was born in Valletta in 1921. At 18, in January 1940, without his parents’ knowledge and before waiting for his conscription papers, he joined the Royal Navy as an assistant steward at the Naval Depot. After two months training, he was drafted with other Maltese cooks and stewards to the County Class cruiser HMS Sussex, which had made a brief stop at Malta on its way from South Africa to the UK. Leading steward Charles Paris in June 1940. The vessel docked in Liverpool in March ...

Many of them remain in service to this day. Key Point: US technological innovation and industrial practice made it possible for the USN to develop and maintain submarines with advanced noise-suppression technology. The USSR’s tried to answer through raw weight, both in terms of size and number of boats. History’s three great submarine campaigns include the First Battle of the Atlantic, the Second Battle of the Atlantic, and the US Navy’s (USN) war against Japanese commerce in World War I...

America sent her to stop Hitler from getting Frances warships. Heres What You Need to Remember: USS Massachusetts returned to the United States after the war, and decommissioned in 1947. It would remain in reserve for fifteen years. Because of cramped conditions on the South Dakotas, the Navy preferred to use Washington and North Carolina as training vessels. The U.S. Navy began construction of its first fast battleships in 1937, with the two ships of the North Carolina class. The restrictions...