I want to talk about stories famous Tsar Cannon, which is now located in the Kremlin of the city of Moscow. This gun…
The cold war pushed the Soviet defense industry to the development of unique types of weapons, which even after 50 years can excite…
These enormous Soviet self-propelled guns seem more like pea shooters when compared with some of history’s largest artillery pieces. “Iraq’s ‘super gun’, while…
6 photos Photo: Ilyushin/Russian Federal Archives When a Soviet-state-owned aerospace manufacturer is demanded by the Communist Party to build an aircraft, it gets…
The Consolidated B-24 Liberator, along with its sleeker brother the B-17, was the workhorse heavy bomber of the United States Army Air Forces.…
The German Pz.Kpfw. IV began its career as an auxiliary vehicle. It was intended to be a support tank to the main German…
On January 11, 1934, following specifications laid down by Heinz Guderian, the Army Weapons Department drew up plans for a medium tank with…
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Mel Gibson’s new film “Hacksaw Ridge” tells the story of a World War II soldier, Desmond Doss, who won…
Many may consider their jewelry necessary but for one Colorado man, his was, quite literally, a lifesaver. According to police in Commerce City,…
Nicolas Appert (c1750 – 1841) was a chef, confectioner and distiller when the French Revolution broke out. During the year of 1795, the…
In 1910, Mare Samuella Cromer, a rural schoolteacher in South Carolina, organized a girl’s tomato club so females aged 9 to 20 could…
The Map of Hell (in Italian La Mappa dell’Inferno ) by Botticelli – regularly called The Abyss of Hell or La Voragine dell’Inferno – …