While it took a while for Brazil to enter the Second World War, the country’s forces certainly left their mark. The Brazilian Air…
Adenauer returned to Cologne after he negotiated the release of the last 10,000 war prisoners, 1955. The mother of a prisoner thanks Konrad…
A German child meets her father for the first time, 1956. A German World War II prisoner is released by the Soviet Union…
Humanities › History & Culture Tirpitz. (Public Domain) The Tirpitz was a German battleship used during World War II. The British made several efforts…
A colossal telamon (an architectural support shaped like a man, also called atlas or atlantid) that once held up the entablature of the…
The Dolmen de Soto from above, showing both the low earth mound covering the megalithic corridor, and the reconstructed entrance way beside the…
The Francis turbine is a type of water turbine. It is an inward-flow reaction turbine that combines radial and axial flow concepts. Francis turbines are the most common water turbine in use…
A gladiator’s helmet left behind in the ruins of Pompeii is the centrepiece of an exhibition to be unveiled in Melbourne today. The…
The photographs above show a group of female trainees from the Los Angeles Police Department during a pistol practice firing, in the classic…
The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine was arguably the most important engine of WW2. It had an ability to produce war-winning designs of almost anything…
Lads !!! The problem of the command in a battlefield between tanks is very complex. The speed of the vehicles in…
It seems like every automaker with a claim to high performance and high technology has an automated-manual transmission today. Ferrari was the first,…