Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
League of Legends (LoL), commonly referred to as League, is a 2009 multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by Defense of the Ancients , a custom map for Warcraft III , Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre.
Alexander's invasion of Persia as a whole has been denoted as a supreme example of a "strategic line" of conducting war, a line formed by "the chain of logic that connects operations into a single whole." In his book Strategy, Soviet military officer and theorist Alexander Svechin delineates Alexander's strategic steps. After securing his Greek ...
The 22.5 cm Minenwerfer M 15 was a heavy mortar used by Austria-Hungary in World War I. [1] It was developed by Böhler as an alternative to the German Ehrhardt 25 cm schwere Minenwerfer which Böhler was having problems building under license. It was a muzzle-loading, smooth-bore mortar that had no recoil system whatsoever.
During World War I, several major leaders, especially U.S. president Woodrow Wilson, advocated for a world body to guarantee peace. The winners of the war, the Allies, met to decide on formal peace terms at the Paris Peace Conference. The League of Nations was approved and started operations, but the United States never joined.
Warsaw Uprising; Part of Operation Tempest of the Polish Resistance and the Eastern Front of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Civilians construct an anti-tank ditch in Wola district; German anti-tank gun in Theatre Square; Home Army soldier defending a barricade; Ruins of Bielańska Street; Insurgents leave the city ruins after surrendering to German forces; Allied transport planes ...
Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American former NSA intelligence contractor and whistleblower [4] who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs.
Map of the ethnic groups of South Sudan. South Sudan has a population of approximately 11 million [184] [185] and a predominantly rural, subsistence economy. This region has been negatively affected by war for all but 10 of the years since 1956, resulting in serious neglect, lack of infrastructure development, and major destruction and ...
Other segments: National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States, New Zealand's exclusion from world maps Guest: Stephen Fry (voice-over) Note: When broadcast in the United Kingdom, a clip from Parliament is replaced with a clip from Muscle Motion, a 1983 exercise video featuring the Chippendales.