17/04/17 | History
Vincenzo Tiberio, medical officer of Regia Marina, the first Italian discoverer of antibiotics
The role of luck, more or less casual (serendipity) or oriented by skills, is not the prerogative only of the game or of all those human or social actions in some way to ...
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11/04/17 | History
The secret fortress of Gibraltar: the underground tunnel complex that defended the British throughout the 2GM
A network of underground galleries that could hold up to 16.000 soldiers for over a year. Tunnels and hidden accesses that bore the names of English cities to orient themselves ...
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11/04/17 | History
Ba'athism and Assad Syria
The Middle East has always been prey to states that pursue colonialist and imperialist goals, first for its strategic position, then for its natural resources, useful ...
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07/04/17 | History
The Civil War in Rhodesia (1965 - 1979): Historical Premises and Armaments Involved
Thanks to the commercial intuition of Cecil Rhodes, Great Britain, in the second half of the 800, acquired control of the African areas located west of Mozambique and north of ...
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04/04/17 | History
The secret weapon of the Third Reich
The Nazi army was certainly one of the most powerful in history. Numerous factors contributed to make it such: tactical-military superiority, technology, a strong campaign of ...
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31/03/17 | History
Italian 35.000
The battleships of the Littorio class, set in the shipyards of Trieste and Genoa in the 1938, were the first battleships from 35.000 tons built in the world and among the ships to ...
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29/03/17 | History
Shiny the aircraft carrier from clay feet
The Japanese Imperial Navy began the Pacific war with 10 aircraft carrier, at the time the largest and most modern fleet in the world of this type. Although some aircraft carriers ...
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21/03/17 | History
Yamato battle ships
The great battleships Yamato and Musashi were the most famous and challenging constructions of the Japanese Imperial Navy. Impressive ships for their size and for the whole ...
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20/03/17 | History
CIA Army Mafia, evidence emerges
In the 1942 war hung on the side of the Nazi-Fascists, the president of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not ...
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17/03/17 | History
17 March 1861: 156 years ago the unity of Italy
It was the 17 March of the 1861 when, during the session at Palazzo Carignano, the new Parliament named for the first ...
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16/03/17 | History
The March 17 was the Monarchic Risorgiment. But was there some Republican attempt?
The term "Risorgimento" means a period of Italian history, historically placed by the defeat of ...
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15/03/17 | History
March 222 aC In the Battle of Clastidium, the first "Unity of Italy" under the banner of the Legion to manipulate
It was the third century BC, precisely the 222, when at Clastidium (Casteggio in the Oltrepò Pavese, nda) the army ...
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06/03/17 | History
Herodotus and the war of Troy according to Persians
If we hear of the Trojan war, our thoughts lead us to the memories we have of Homer's Iliad, ...
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25/02/17 | History
The destroyer class Poets or Alfredo Oriani
The Alfredo Oriani class, also known as the Poets class, was a class of destroyers, ordered in the 1935, they were ...
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22/02/17 | History
The battle of Farsalo
The Battle of Farsalus is certainly one of the topical moments of European and world history, being the icon ...
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21/02/17 | History
The Omission of the Oaks and German Responsibilities: Another Page of a Forgotten History
The Italian occupation of Greece during the Second World War remains today one of the least ...
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18/02/17 | History
Archimedes and the siege of Syracuse
Often from reading a book, there are curiosities to be met that lead you inexorably to read ...
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17/02/17 | History
Cassino's Battle: "Second and Third Battle" (3 / 3)
Given the progress of previous clashes with German troops in the sector, General Alexander decided to ...
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16/02/17 | History
The Battle of Cassino: "From September 8 to the Gustav Line" (2 / 3)
The Italian political events between the 25 July and the 8 September 1943 could not clearly not reverberate the whole ...
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15/02/17 | History
The battle of Cassino: "The allied campaign of Italy as seen by the German command" (1/3)
When in the late spring of 1943 the last Italian-German positions capitulated at the end of the extreme (and ...
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