Old war debts never die, they just fade away.......

In 2015, Britain finally paid off a large war loan issued in 1917 to finance the First World War. In 2010, Germany made the last payments on some 80-year-old debts originally used to finance part of its reparations bill imposed by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

These were exceptions. The vast majority of the debts made during the Great War have never been paid back, including billion dollar loans from the US to western allies. These debt...

The Caribbean before Columbus is a new synthesis of the region's insular history. It combines the results of the authors' 55 years of archaeological research on almost every island in the three archipelagoes with that of their numerous colleagues and collaborators. The presentation operates on multiple scales: temporal, spatial, local, regional, environmental, social, and political.

In addition, individual sites are used to highlight specific issues. For the first time, the complete histories...

A History of the Muslim World to 1750 traces the development of Islamic civilization from the career of the Prophet Muhammad to the mid-eighteenth century. Encompassing a wide range of significant events within the period, its coverage includes the creation of the Dar al-Islam (the territory ruled by Muslims), the fragmentation of society into various religious and political groups including the Shi'ites and Sunnis, the series of catastrophes in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that threa...

Op 5 september 1786 stuurde stadhouder Willem V van Oranje-Nassau achthonderd man troepen naar de opstandige stadjes Hattem en Elburg. De inwoners waren in verzet gekomen tegen de in hun ogen tirannieke macht van Willem V en diens aanhangers. De gebeurtenissen in Gelderland vormden de opmaat tot de burgeroorlog die in mei 1787 in alle hevigheid in de provincie Utrecht losbarstte en vier maanden later zijn dieptepunt bereikte toen een Pruisische interventiemacht van 20.000 man de Republiek bin...

The terrorist attacks that have been haunting European capitals show us that counterterrorism is necessary and essential in modern day society. The intelligence services and other organisations active in the field of counterterrorism are faced on a daily basis with the question of how extensive and intrusive their actions can be. What are the limits? Which actions are ethical? And most importantly: how do the professionals themselves deal with these - often complex - dilemmas? In Ethics of Co...

Over de geallieerde operatie Market Garden zijn de spreekwoordelijke boekenkasten volgeschreven. Veel minder bekend is dat bij het plaatsje Overloon in oktober 1944 een strijd tussen de geallieerden en de Duitsers is geleverd, waarbij het aantal slachtoffers dat van de slag om Arnhem dicht naderde. Bovendien vond bij het dorpje in de Peel de enige tankslag op Nederlandse bodem plaats.

De slag bij Overloon is echter grotendeels in de vergetelheid geraakt. Hier geen spectaculaire luchtlandingso...

Nástin historie vzniki Komenského Muzea a Mauzolea v Naardenu

Ter gelegenheid van 80 jaar Comenius Mausoleum

8 mei 1937 - 8 mei 2017

U příležitosti osmdesátiletého výročí Komenského mauzolea

8. května 1937 - 8. května 2017