Gun caliber was a big deal in battleship construction. A ship carrying 8 16" guns may have the same weight of broadside as one carrying 12 14" guns, but the.
Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar) was the third battleship commissioned by the Italian Navy. When built she was a respectably armed unit, 24000 tons, 13 12" guns in three triple and.
I never got around to following up on this post, which was touted as the first in a series. I've been thinking lately about how to explain to people why.
USS New York (BB-34) was the ninth dreadnought battleship built for the US Navy. Commissioned in April of 1914, New York displaced 27000 tons, could make 21 knots, and carried.
This strikes me as nonsense:The USS Iowa joined in battles from World War II to Korea to the Persian Gulf. It carried President Franklin Roosevelt home from the Teheran conference.
Mithras' generally funny "taxonomy of conservative blogs" has generated a great deal of commentary (30 trackbacks and still going strong), much of it centered on his comments about Michelle Malkin..
Now for something we can all agree on. . .Nobody, or nobody sensible, anymore believes that the Iraq War was pre-emptive. A pre-emptive war, let's recall, is one launched against.
Hiroshima, sixty years ago today.I wonder what it is like to have the entire history of one's city so tightly bound to a day, and afternoon, a moment that it's.
