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Concorde had a cruising speed of 2,179 kilometers or 1,354 miles per hour, which was Mach 2 - twice the speed of sound.
A New York to London flight would only take 3 hours, therefore making it much faster than a regular commercial flight.
On the 2nd of April 1982, forces from Argentina invaded the British overseas territory of the Falkland Islands, the first invasion of British territory since World War II. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, accused of neglecting the islands, assembled a task force to recover them.
The Ancient Egyptians believed in several rituals in order to reach the afterlife into the next world and achieve immortality.
During the 1930s Germany motorised and mechanized infantry came into being, organized as part of a ‘combined arms’ formation. The term Panzergrenadier came about in 1942, classifying all the mechanised and motorised units as armored units instead of infantry.
Tanks were a nasty surprise for the Germans when they made their entrance onto the battlefield in 1916. While grenades were effective at close range, the Germans quickly sought ranged solutions to disable enemy tanks.
The Vietnam war is often referred to as the “first television war.”
Media coverage showed the American public the reality of a foreign war, detached from the government’s optimistic depiction, uncensored on their televisions at home.
Douglas Bader
The law stated that you had to be 18 to sign up and 19 to serve overseas in the British Armed Forces. However thousands of boys and young men under this age requirement managed to volunteer for the army by lying about their age or making up false names.
Not a lot of information on this early British Self-Loading rifle, that could have been a gamechanger on the battlefields of WWI.
By the 1915, the war on the Western Front had fallen into stalemate.
The Allied powers fighting in Belgium and France were considering opening a new front.
An isolated American island in the Pacific Ocean is held out by a small US Marine garrison against the Imperial Japanese Navy.
The path to knighthood started at the age of 7. A boy born of nobility was sent to a castle as a page and at age 14 he became a squire. As a squire he could go into battle as an assistant to a knight, and at age 21 they could become a full knight themselves.
Ferdinand Magellan - first circumnavigation of the Earth completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano.
The New Zealand Army of WWI
Simo Häyhä is considered to be the greatest sniper of all time , reported to have taken 505 kills.
All of his sniper kills would be achieved during the Winter war of 1939 to 1940.
Space Shuttle
Reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft
The three parts that made up the space shuttle were the orbiter - the part that resembled an aeroplane, the large orange external tank and the 2 solid rocket boosters.
At the end of the Korean War, after 2 years of negotiation, an armistice was signed on July 27, 1953, at Panmunjom on the 38th parallel. A demilitarised zone was set up which stands to this day.
The Thing
Uncle Joe
Japanese Fire Balloons
In the morning of 10th April 1912 passengers began boarding the Titanic in Southampton, England, with many crowds gathering to watch the ship depart. Only days into the maiden voyage the Titanic was sinking after hitting an iceberg..
Meet the tycoons who made America the most powerful country on the planet.
The Buran meaning “snowstorm” in Russian was the Soviet Union’s response to NASA's space shuttle program.
Senior commanders took a soldier’s refusal to return to the frontline as desertion, and used this harsh disciplinary punishment as a way of deterring others from doing so.
‘Toshers’ or sewer hunters were people who ventured into the filthy sewers looking for valuable items such as copper coins or gold to sell on.
A lot has happened to this philosopher even after death..
The Berlin wall would become a symbol of ideological division and suppression of human rights during the Cold War.
Border troops of the Army - the Grenztruppen were formed to protect the inner border with Western Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia and the Wall surrounding West Berlin.
Initially Winston Churchill regarded the territory as a outpost and would not reinforce it against impending attack and reduced the British garrison there to fight the ongoing war in Europe.
From September 1941, he reversed this decision and increase the manpower of the garrison with commonwealth troops as a military deterrent against the Japanese forces.
Sergeant-Major Osborn displayed the highest qualities of heroism and self-sacrifice, becoming the first Canadian to receive the Victoria cross in the Second World War which he received posthumously.
