Key: On this table, figures originally given in various local coinages have all been converted to livres tournais, worth about £4 sterling; s, shilling, of which there were 12 to the pound; d, penny, ...

Khamenei is the senior cleric on the Guardians Council that is the final authority in the government. Twelve senior clerics on the council have ruled Iran since the 1980s. Tenure on the council is for ...

Container ships can carry over 24,000 TEU/Twenty Foot Equivalent 6.1 meter metal containers. These ships have crews of fewer than fifty officers and sailors. The Nimitz has a ship’s complement of ...

Despite claims that at slight more than 300 ships the U.S. Navy is "too small," it is, of course the largest in the world. But who has the second largest? Well, one could make a good argument that not ...

Operating considerably beyond existing doctrine, the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized) (3ID [M]) proved that a lethal, flexible, and disciplined mechanized force could conduct continuous offensive ...

For nearly thirty years China has been making serious preparations to launch an amphibious operation to conquer Taiwan. The latest development is a barge that carries a 130 meter long road platform ...

The x-ray evidence consisted of an x-ray image of a child that had been taken by photographing a real child head x-ray with a bullet positioned behind the child’s head or an x-ray of a child’s head ...

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged ...

February 20, 2025: Large-scale Islamic terrorism actually began in the 1970s and changed Arab attitudes towards this perennial problem. For the first time in a long time the wealthiest Arab states, ...