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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Marines with Antitank-Training Company, 4th Marine Division, Marine Force Reserve, move ammunition from a Humvee during ...

There followed a frank discussion about the characteristics of Islamic culture that nurture and periodically revive Islamic radicalism and terrorism. For over a thousand years every few generations ...

Ukraine reported that Russian troops were using Chinese munitions and presented proof. When Chinese officials were shown these munitions, their excuse was that Russia must have obtained these ...

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 ...

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 ...

A wartime economy was adopted, with the usual infrastructure and social expenditures cut. There was another problem, over a million Russians, most of them military age men, left the country. This, ...

During Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF), Army helicopters were an integral part of the combined arms team. They supported the division scheme of maneuver with a wide range of capabilities. Medical ...

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China has always been unofficially involved with the northern rebels because China allows the rebels, especially the ethnic Chinese Myanmar Chin rebels, to enter China to buy weapons and other ...