Richard Hough is a well-known naval historian. Mr. Hough was researching a book when he met Mountbatten, the great uncle of Prince Charles. He was commissioned to write authorized biographies of Mountbatten’s parents, Louis and Victoria. Hough was training in Los Angeles flying school in 1941 and celebrated his twenty-first birthday shooting down two German [...]
How is it possible that Napoleon Bonaparte, the most feared man in Europe, ruler of France, the most powerful nation in Europe in the early 1800’s, could ever possibly be defeated? The answer lies not so much the in battles that he lost, but rather in the many internal struggles Napoleon faced. The Quadruple Alliance [...]
During the 17th century, England began to stretch out its tentacles and grab hold of the Americas. The latecomers established their colonies in two different regions along the eastern coast of North America. These regions were known as the Chesapeake and New England areas. As extensions of the British Empire, they all had a similar [...]
With the increasing number of migrants moving to the Southern colonies and a growing number of plantations being set up on the open fields of the South, the need for slaves increased as well. As sugar, tobacco, rice and other resources were wanted by the migrants and owners of the plantations, they imported more and [...]
During the holidays I visited a local computer shop. There I noticed that all computers were networked together using a LAN and that they had a main server computer which is used not only to share resources with one another but it also ran a web server which is used for their company website. I [...]