On 8 December 1914 German Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee, fresh from his victory at the Battle of Coronel in early November, was surprised by a British squadron sent to intercept him.AmbushSpee was en route to destroy the British coaling and communication facilities at Port Stanley on the Falkland Islands.
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The history of the Byzantine Empire is little known to the general public in France, yet it is rich and fascinating. Among them, Michel Kaplan, who republishes at Publications de la Sorbonne twenty-seven articles from the years 1990 to 2010 devoted to the Church and holiness in the Byzantine Empire, under the title Powers, Church and Holiness.
This relief was found in Kuoyunjik (Nineveh), Iraq (700-695 BCE) decorating a royal building of King Sennacherib. The archer is probably an Aramaean while the spearman could be from Levant. This...
Eversole II(DD-789: dp. 2,425; 1. 390& 39;6& 34;, b. 40& 39;11& 34;, dr. 18& 39;6& 34;; s. 35 k.; cpl. 336; a. 6 6& 34;, 10 21& 34; tt., 6 dcp., 2 dct.; cl. Gearing)The second Eversole was launched 8 January 1946 by Todd-Pacific Shipyards, Inc., Seattle, Wash., sponsored by Mrs. S. R. Eversole, mother of Lieutenant (junior grade) Eversole, and commissioned 10 May 1946, Commander B.
Why is there hardly any Flemish linguistic heritage in the former Belgian colonies, at least at the institutional level? EDIT (Evidence of prior research): Neither the Democratic Republic of the Co…
