On the plain, southwest of Saigon, near the Mekong River delta, there was in 1963 a small village called Ap Bac. There was nothing extraordinary about that small village with rice fields. It was but an insignificant dot on the map, until that morning on January 2, 1963. A few days before, the int
You were almost trampled on the Market Square again, the bagel stuck in your throat, and the sound of the bugle call starts to hurt your head. Relax! We will remind you what makes Krakow such an interesting city. As always, all items in our TOP10 are based on articles published by Curiosities of
At the start of the war the Greek Army had 12,200 machine guns of three types. The Model 1915 Chauchat submachine gun was by far the worst submachine gun of all time, although it was used by almost all Allied armies in World War I. The Greek Army procured them in 1917 (about 3,500 of them). The r
I continue this article where I left off in the previous entry:the myth of the independence of the county of Castile (I) 2.- Appropriation of the myth by the historiography of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th The supposed Castilian independence served as a great loudspeaker and the