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Our archenemy of today was not a great military leader, or an admired and praised hero, he was a young warrior, one more element within the fierce resistance that a single city opposed to the best oiled military machine of the ancient world:Numancia . Serve this article as a tribute not only to the
The term Islam means, from the religious point of view, surrender or submission to God. The mosque was, in the Muslim world, the center of religious life . In the major mosques of the cities the faithful gathered to attend the Friday prayers. In the prayer that was celebrated in the main mosque of C
The tanker Lesvos was launched in 1942 as the USS Boone County. It was an LST 1 (Landing Ship Tanks) type tanker. The vessel had a displacement, with a full load, of about 4,000 tons. It was 100 m long and had a maximum speed of only 12 knots. It was armed with 40 and 20 mm anti-aircraft guns His
Pavlos Kouroupis was born in 1929 in Dentra, Messinia. He was a child of a rural, large family. His dream was to become an officer. He did it in 1952, graduating from the Evelpidon School. Very studious, he continued his studies and graduated from the School of Law of the Aristotle University. H