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 the war was on the side of the Nazi-fascists, the president of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not sleep quiet dreams; Hitler's submarines were ...
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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 "Italian" for the first time, promulgated the law n. 4761 of the Kingdom of ...
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16/03/17 | History
The March 17 was the Monarchic Risorgiment. But was there some Republican attempt?
The term "Risorgimento" indicates a period in Italian history, historically placed by the defeat of Napoleon with the subsequent Congress of Vienna (1815), at ...
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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 the Clastidium (Casteggio in the Oltrepò Pavese, nda) the army of Rome, led by the Consul Marco Claudio Marcello, closed ...
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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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11/02/17 | History
The warlike race of the Amazons, from Strabo
Who were the Amazons, the mythical lineage of warrior women? We ask Strabo, the "Geographer". Strabo, born in ...
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10/02/17 | History
The sinkholes: between denialism and revisionism
The 10 February recurs the "day of remembrance" in memory of the massacre perpetrated by the Yugoslav forces of the marshal ...
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10/02/17 | History
10 February 1947: the price of defeat
The 10 February 1947, exactly 70 years ago, for Italy the transition period between the ...
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06/02/17 | History
Curiosities about the Roman army, from Pliny the Elder
Storie Naturali, by Pliny the Elder is - according to what was affirmed by his nephew Pliny the Younger - a "vast work ...
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This is not America? Migrant Chaos and Social Revolt in the United States
The American melting pot continues to simmer; this too is part of exceptionalism, albeit in a negative way. The United States, those with many stars on the flag, reiterate propensities...
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Letters to the Director
Why do Russians put tires on airplanes?
Many loyal readers have asked: “Why do images of aircraft and other vehicles, deployed and also used in operational situations, have tires on their structures?” Pressed...
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