Colt, weapons icon with a dangerous addiction to military contracts
In 1836, Connecticut armorer Samuel Colt patented a revolver mechanism that allowed the construction of a weapon capable of firing several times in a row … Read more
World War II
Historic Covid-19 vaccination begins in the US
Almost three million Americans will begin receiving the covid-19 vaccine during the next few days starting this Monday, after the first shipments of the Pfizer … Read more
Two experts die in the Solomon Islands when demining ammunition from World War II | International
Two demining experts, a British and an Australian, were killed in the World War II ammunition explosion they were trying to neutralize in the Solomon … Read more
The guards competed to kill more prisoners. Won “King of Throat Cutters”
The so-called Independent State of Croatia or “Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska” (NDH) was established in April 1941 after the German invasion as a puppet state of … Read more
The story of Hiroo Onoda, a soldier who just surrendered 29 years after the Japanese defeat in World War II
TOKYO, KOMPAS.com – Soldier Japan the last to surrender after the country’s defeat deeply World War II is Hiroo Onoda. Lieutenant Onoda only surrendered on … Read more
Alan Parker died. The director of Evita and Midnight Express was 76 years old
British filmmaker Alan Parker has died, directing, for example, the Oscar-nominated films Midnight Express and Burning Mississippi, and the film transcription of the musical Evita … Read more
Vodiček’s union returned subsidies to avoid tax audits due to hundreds of thousands of mistakes
The Czech Union of Freedom Fighters returned more than 762,000 crowns from the subsidy to the state, due to which it was threatened with tax … Read more
A Gothic cathedral from the 15th century is burning in Nantes, and the fire has been brought under control
A Gothic cathedral from the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries is burning in Nantes in western France, with dozens of firefighters on the … Read more
For the hateful comments under the photo of the freshmen in Teplice, the plaintiff proposes a condition
The public prosecutor is demanding a suspended sentence for Vítězslav Kroupa, who is accused due to hateful comments on Facebook under a photo of Teplice’s … Read more