Search results
4 days ago · Regency of Algiers. The Regency of Algiers [a] ( Arabic: دولة الجزائر, romanized : Dawlat al-Jaza'ir) was a largely independent tributary state of the Ottoman Empire during the early modern period, located on the Barbary Coast of North Africa from 1516 to 1830.
May 17, 2024 · In Hesiod 's Theogony, the Cyclopes are the three brothers Brontes, Steropes, and Arges, who made for Zeus his weapon the thunderbolt. In Homer 's Odyssey, they are an uncivilized group of shepherds, the brethren of Polyphemus encountered by Odysseus. Cyclopes were also famous as the builders of the Cyclopean walls of Mycenae and Tiryns .
2 days ago · Denmark: Adventure film about the prince of Denmark stopping a conspiracy to seize the crown Ironclad: Battle for Blood: 2014: 1221: England: A survivor of the Great Siege of Rochester Castle fights to save his clan from Celtic raiders. A sequel to the 2011 film, Ironclad. The Tartars: 1962: 1236–1242: Kievan Rus' Mongol invasion of Russia ...
2 days ago · The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Ancient Greek: γρύψ, romanized: grýps; Classical Latin: grȳps or grȳpus; Late and Medieval Latin: gryphes, grypho etc.; Old French: griffon) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs.
2 days ago · The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers. Its principal members by the end of 1941 were the "Big Four" – the United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union, and China .
2 days ago · Indian workers check new fuel tanks at the Hindustan Aircraft Factory in Bangalore, 1944. Military production during World War II was the production or mobilization of arms, ammunition, personnel and financing by the belligerents of the war, from the occupation of Austria in early 1938 to the surrender and occupation of Japan in late 1945.
5 days ago · 152 mm gun M1910/34 – captured from Russian. 152 mm howitzer M1938 (M-10) – captured from Russian. 17 cm Kanone 18 (heaviest German field artillery piece) 15 cm Schiffskanone C/28 in Mörserlafette (surplus guns on excess carriages of 17 cm Kanone 18) 203 mm howitzer M1931 (B-4) – captured from Russian.
