"Second Numa Pompilius" - Antoninus Pius
The activities of the fourth "good emperor" of the Antonin dynasty are highly appreciated by historians, but he remains in the shadow of Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius...
Operation Spark. Assault on the "Ladoga Fortress"
On January 18, 1943, on the outskirts of Workers' Settlement No. 1 near Shlisselburg, units of the Leningrad Front joined forces with the troops of the Volkhov Front. As a result, the blockade of Leningrad was broken...
Taranaq war. How the natives defeated the educated English
The Taranaki War or the Titokovuru Rebellion - Maori warriors under the command of the "eater of whites" ...
Hellenophile Hadrian, third "good emperor" of the Antonine dynasty
The third "good emperor", whom his contemporaries almost officially declared a tyrant and cursed posthumously...
Wolf Messing: telepath, magician or liar
Which of Messing's stories about himself is true and which is not ...
How did the Khmelnytsky uprising begin?
Offended and furious, Khmelnitsky no longer believed the king, he conceived something else. On the way from Warsaw, he showed privileges and urged people to take up arms - for the time being for the king, against the pans. That's how it started...
The creation of new heroes by Soviet propaganda in the 1930s
How unknown people became celebrities thanks to propaganda...
"Toad head" from all the vicissitudes of fate
Today we will talk about the so-called "toad head" helmets (frog-mouth helm in English) or stechhelm (stechhelm in German) - a very original type of helmet characteristic of the XV - and that's all ...
Place of power: 80 years of the Pentagon
January 15, 1943 completed the construction of the Pentagon building. This is one of the largest and most protected buildings in the world. Symbol of the United States Armed Forces...
The Age of the Five Good Emperors
In the history of Ancient Rome there are 84 years (from 96 to 180), which are often called the "happy century", "golden age" or "the era of five good (good) emperors" ...
Unification of Rus': an alternative to Moscow
Who, apart from Moscow, claimed to be the unifier of the Russian lands...
The myth of the Tatar-Mongol yoke
The fake about the "Mongol-Tatar yoke" was launched by the Vatican. No Mongols from Mongolia ever reached Rus'. This is a lie and nonsense. A bunch of shepherds couldn't conquer huge kingdoms and build...
The Truth About Truth
What advantages and disadvantages of printed propaganda in the USSR can the yellowed pages of Pravda tell us?...
Cilician Pirates. Thunderstorm and horror of the Mediterranean Sea of Antiquity
Cilician pirates, the appearance, the peak of power and the defeat of the squadrons of Gnaeus Pompey...
Punic Wars: Did Carthage Have a Chance?
What chances did Hannibal have to take Rome, how and thanks to whom did he miss them ...
How the Russian army ended up in Paris
On January 13, 1813, the Russian army of Field Marshal Kutuzov crossed the Neman in three columns. Thus began the foreign campaign of the Russian army, which ended in April 1814 with the collapse of Napoleon's empire...
Kalash and cannons in exchange for the Solntsedar from Algeria
How the USSR supplied weapons to the former French colony, getting cheap booze from French wine materials for it ...
"Pawed Geese" Uncle Sam in battle. Arkansas Starts and Loses
The ships approached, and a deafening cannonade began. In the cramped and hustle of battle, one southern ram sank his own ship. Then another ship caught fire and sank into the shallows...
Streltsy uprising of 1682 and the coming to power of Princess Sophia
The uprising of the archers and the bloody struggle for power after the death of Tsar Fedor in 1682...
"We must either take the fortress, or all die." The brutal assault on Lankaran
210 years ago, the Russian detachment of General Kotlyarevsky, despite the numerical superiority of the Persian garrison, stormed the Lankaran fortress. The enemy garrison was destroyed. Shaken Persia...
Abram Petrovich Hannibal in Russia: from Peter I to Catherine II
Childhood and youth of "Peter the Great's arab", studies in Paris, disgrace, two marriages, service under Elizabeth, the last years of his life...
How almost the entire command of the Pacific Fleet of the USSR died in a plane crash
How an overload of Tu-104 with scarce goods decapitated the Pacific Fleet of the USSR ...
Reds vs. whites - the educated prevailed
We conclude the essay on the professionalism and military experience of the members of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic during the Civil War...
The image of Russia in the works of representatives of the "Conservative Revolution"
According to Oswald Spengler, Russia is interested in the West, because Russian civilization has a desire to conclude it in a fraternal alliance, while Western civilization does not have this - we are “alien” and ...