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  • submarine

    submarine
    A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. (It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability.)[2] The term "submarine" is also sometimes used historically or informally to refer to remotely operated vehicles and robots, or to medium-sized or smaller vessels (such as the midget submarine and the wet sub). Submarines are referred to as boats rather than ships regardless of their size
  • rasputin

    rasputin
    Grigori Rasputin is most famous for being a Russian mystic and faith healer who gained significant influence over the imperial family of Tsar Nicholas II, particularly the Tsarina Alexandra, and for his mysterious death.
  • Tsar Nicholas 2

    Tsar Nicholas 2
    Nicholas II (born May 6 [May 18, New Style], 1868, Tsarskoye Selo [now Pushkin], near St. Petersburg, Russia—died July 17, 1918, Yekaterinburg) was the last Russian emperor (1894–1917), who, with his wife, Alexandra, and their children, was killed by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution.
  • vladimir lenin

    vladimir lenin
    Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death.
  • barbed wire

    barbed wire
    Joseph Glidden, a farmer from Illinois, invented a practical method for manufacturing barbed wire and received a patent for his design
  • winston churchill

    winston churchill
    Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
  • gavrilo princip

    gavrilo princip
    Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
  • airplanes

    airplanes
    An airplane, an aeroplane, often shortened to plane, is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller, or rocket engine. Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wing configurations.
  • battle of chra

    battle of chra
    The Battle of Chra, also known as the Affair of Khra, was a brief but significant engagement during the Togoland Campaign of World War I, fought on August 22, 1914, between British and French forces against German Polizeitruppen in the village of Khra, near the Khra River
  • battle of tepe

    battle of tepe
    The Battle of Tepe (or Tebe) on 25 August 1914 was the first skirmish between German and British forces during the Kamerun campaign in of the First World war.
  • poison gas

    poison gas
    The first large-scale use of chemical weapons, including poison gas like chlorine and mustard gas, occurred during World War I, with the Germans deploying chlorine gas at Ypres in April 1915, a development spearheaded by chemist Fritz Haber.
  • battle of the somme

    battle of the somme
    Battle of Verdun in World War I
    The Battle of Verdun, a brutal 10-month-long engagement during World War I, saw over 700,000 casualties, making it one of the longest and deadliest battles of the war, fought between February and December 1916
  • gallipoli campaign

    gallipoli campaign
    The Gallipoli Campaign, a disastrous First World War military operation, involved Allied forces attempting to capture the Dardanelles Strait and Constantinople, but ultimately failed after eight months of intense fighting and heavy casualties, leading to the evacuation of Allied troops in January 1916.
  • battle of verdun

    battle of verdun
    The Battle of Verdun, a brutal 10-month-long engagement during World War I, saw over 700,000 casualties, making it one of the longest and deadliest battles of the war, fought between February and December 1916
  • tanks

    tanks
    Tanks are armored fighting vehicles designed as primary offensive weapons in ground combat, known for their heavy firepower, strong armor, and battlefield mobility. They are a mainstay of modern ground forces and a key part of combined arms combat.