Dambe. Nigeria’s Indigenous Boxing Martial Art.
Vietnam’s Successful Historic Generals Were Sisters.
The Trưng sisters were known as Hai Bà Trưng, or “Two Ladies [named] Trưng”. Around AD 14 – c. AD 43) they were military leaders …
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Merry Christmas For All Who Serve
Without a doubt this has been the most challenging year for most Americans. With the worst, most corrupt infantile president, and even more saddening, as …
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This is my Time Capsule Prediction for the Trump Presidency.
I wrote this just over 4 years ago. Some of it is too over the top to have taken place. The rest has pretty much …
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The Fairburn-Sykes Fighting System.
The Fairburn- Sykes Fighting Knife is pointed dagger also called a poignard, and it has a Fencing foil grip developed by Bill Fairburn and …
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Her Satanic Majesty. Mary Todd Lincoln’s Personality Problem
Mary Lincoln was a classic combination of rageaholic and pretentious show off. As soon as AbrahamLincoln won the election, she began spending lavishly provision the …
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Don Ho, USAF
Donald Tai Loy Ho (August 13, 1930 – April 14, 2007) was an American pop musical singer and entertainer. He was born in the Honolulu. He worked his …
More World War II Numbers
World War II ended with the Japanese surrender on September 2nd, 1945. That made it six years and a day long. It involved sixty nations …
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Yalta
The conference at Yalta was a chance for the inheritors of power after World War II to decide how to govern. It was obviously one …
After World War II, Germany Was Ravaged.
Germans could see the writing on the wall. They had least holdings and alliances in Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and half of …
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Paris, After The Liberation.
When Paris was liberated it was a broken city. No gas, no power, no light, streets filled with thieves. There was a soap and …
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Odd World War II Facts.
More than 1000 V-1 and V-2 Rockets would landed on British soil. The V-2 almost exclusively impacted in London and on the Belgian capitol. …
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Incendiary Behavior
T 1 Monroe Leaflet Bomb British Air Minister Arthur Harris watched London burn for the roof of his offices on King Charles Street. He …
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Incendiary Behavior
RAF Pummels Essen With Incendiaries British Air Minister Arthur Harris watched London burn for the roof of his offices on King Charles Street. He …
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The Run-Up to the Capture of Strasbourg.
Jean De Lattre De Tasingny, French General of the 1st Army 82nd Airborne Division and French Resistance Fighters in France in 1944 The …
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London During WWII
1945 England was a deprecated mess. Rubble in the streets. Bombed out architecture with no time to repair, rats over taking the sewer system. …
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Ike and Monty
Eisenhower came to believe that Bernard Montgomery is a good man to serve under, a difficult man to serve with and an impossible man to …