The dictator loved it so much that personally called the radio station demanding for a copy of the performance, there’s was only one problem: what he had listen was a live broadcast of a concert that hadn’t been recorded but no one wanted to upset the leader (2/8)
Otto I arrived with his troops near the city between the 8th and 9th of August. He was joined by the dukes of Bavaria, of Lotharingia, of Swabians and of Bohemia. Otto had at his disposala round 10k heavy cavlry, against around 50k of the enemy light cavalry. (2/6) 
In 1930 he left the Army and worked as an editor of a Nairobi newspaper, a model, and a movie extra, he even participated to the 1939 bow World Championship representing Britain (2/16) 
It is thought to have Lomgobards origins, used by the aristocracy of the kingdom as a charriot. By XI century its functions became mainly symbolic, because of the added weight of the Cross and the city banners. (2/6) 
From the start, Caesar refused to behave like a captive. When the pirates told him that they had set his ransom at 20 talents, he laughed at them for not knowing who it was they had captured and suggested that 50 talents would be a more appropriate amount. (2/8)
US naval tradition requires the carriers’ crews to be as discreet as possible about the error especially avoiding embarrassing the pilot. But theory and practice are two very different things and crews developed a tradition of doing works of art with the unexpected visitors (2/5)
Each hoplite had a shield in his left arm that was used to protect half of him and half of the hoplite to his right. While approaching the enemy was a natural instinct for the soldiers to try to cover their bodies rather than those of the men at their right (3/5) 
In 1933, William returned to what had become Nazi Germany in an attempt to benefit from his half-uncle's growing power. Adolf, who was now chancellor, found him a job at the Reichskreditbank in Berlin, a job that he held for most of the 1930s (2/8)
In Gallia Belgica e Gallia Lugdunenese, due to the heavy taxation, a 
... but Valens was too impatient and decided to move the troops.
The 25th of August 1896 the casus belli was the succession between a pro-British sultan and a new one, Khalid, who hadn't as favourable views on the British as his predecessor (2/6)
... but the result of a humanitarian disaster.
The prancing horse was in-fact the insignia of the Italian WWI aviation ace Francesco Baracca, one of the greatest pilots of Italian history, who was shot down during a mission in 1918 (2/7) 
Two volunteers were chosen to do a recconaissance mission around the city to help the artillery. Private Leo Major and Corporal Willy Arsenault were tasked with the mission. The two soldiers however decided to try to conquer the city alone, to try to keep the city intact. (2/4) 
For these reasons soldiers, sailors and pilots train for a long time to recognise the silhouettes of enemy equipment and see them before being seen themselves (2/6) 
Documents on the birth of Sergey Aleshkov were not preserved, but his estimated year of birth is 1934 or 1936 in the forest village of Gryn in the Kaluga region (2/12)
She was known as a poisons expert and was believed to have assassinated her husband Claudius with a poisoned mushrooms’ soup to open the road to the throne to his son Nero (2/14) 
The musketeers of Louis XIII were soldiers who served as a combination of secret service and special forces. Their main duty was to protect the king and his family in a time of frequent plots and conspiracies (2/8) 
But that wasn’t the first time the U.S. resorted to psychological warfare and scare tactics. During the Korean War the American discovered how 1950 was the year of the Tiger in the Chinese calendar (2/6)
The project began when the USA put an embargo on Turkey for UAV, due the fear of them being used to taget PKK groups inside and outside of the nation. Bayrack started developing a drone on the request of turkish government, and in 2014 the TB-12 made its maiden flight. (2/5) 
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