A material without which the entire history of Ancient Egypt would have been simply impossible - papyrus, which the Egyptians ate, built boats, wove ropes, ropes and even sandals...
The Cold War was primarily an information war. A war of meanings and values. The West offered freedom. Part of the Soviet elite, the intelligentsia and the crowd fell for the “showcase of capitalism”...
105 years ago, in February 1919, the Red Army occupied Kyiv. The Petliurists were defeated by the Reds (Ukrainian Front) and the Makhnovists. The remnants of Petliurists fled to the west of Ukraine...
Was the Paraguayan War an attempt by the Paraguayans to defend their rights, or was it a suicidal struggle for territory with a superior enemy, doomed to failure and practically destroying...
370 years ago, the royal regiments, at the call of Khmelnitsky, entered Kyiv and other cities of Little Russia. A new stage in the Russian liberation war has begun - the war between Russia and Poland...
Most Russian government officials believed that victory over “weak” Japan would be achieved with little effort, without disrupting the process of preparing for war in Europe...
On April 12 (according to the Julian calendar), 1865, at the Villa Bermon, the heir to the Russian throne, Nikolai Alexandrovich, with whom many hopes were pinned, completed his short earthly journey; question...
The People's Commissariat for Construction of the USSR, also known as Narkomstroy, during the war actively worked in the field of using local building materials, in particular, the production of soil blocks and construction from...
The resounding victories of John Churchill Marlborough, the alliance and friendship with Eugene of Savoy, the disgrace and sad fate of the protagonist of the War of the Spanish Succession...
The hero of the article is called the most outstanding English commander, and in Russia he is known to many only from the frivolous song “Malbroek is about to go on a campaign”...
Under Brezhnev, the dreams of the Soviet nomenclature finally came true. Now she could live in peace, enjoy the achieved power, privileges and honor...
In Russian and Soviet studies, it is customary to treat the Ottoman fleet condescendingly - they say, what kind of fleet is this? Lots of defeats and very few victories. However, firstly, it was so far away...
Japanese industrial statistics can sometimes reveal decisions made in deep secrecy. Every decision leaves its mark on its execution. Here are the production data...
After the overthrow of the Shah, Iran's armed forces experienced difficult times, as did the military-industrial complex and the economy as a whole; it seemed that they would not withstand the pressure of Iraqi aggression and sanctions, but the opposite happened...