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Prague Castle is the largest castle in the world. It dates to 870, but having been continually built and rebuilt numerous times by several different ruling empires ever since, it contains a wild variety of architectural styles. Four separate palaces, as well as four churches and numerous other buildings and gardens, are all part of the castle complex.
The castle is currently home to the Czech crown jewels, several museums, as well as being the seat of the head of state of the Czech Republic.
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El Parlamento portugués protegido por los antidisturbios. Una imagen tenebrosa para una democracia. ¿Dónde está la soberanía nacional? ¿Delante o detrás de los uniformes negros?
Vía.
The First Balkan War began on October 8, 1912 when Montenegro declared war on the Ottoman Empire. Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia quickly followed suit, resulting in a seven month war for the control of the Balkans. Although the goal of the war was ostensibly to free Macedonia and Albania from the Ottomans, a more accurate description would be that the nations involved hoped that removing the Ottoman Empire from Europe would allow them to expand their own territories.
The Ottoman Empire was placed in a difficult situation. First, they were already involved in a war at the time, fighting the Italians over Libya. Second, they found it difficult to muster an army to the extreme western edge of their territory.
The killing blow was struck when the Bulgarians besieged and then took Adrianople (modern Edirne, Turkey) in March of 1913. In May, the Treaty of London was signed, ending the war. The Ottomans – for centuries the rulers of the Balkans – were forced to retreat almost entirely from Europe.
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Albania was independent, and Thrace and Macedonia were divided up among the allies. But by then the alliance was crumbling. Bulgaria and Serbia were both unhappy with the division of Macedonia, setting the region up for the Second Balkan War.
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(Recently declassified USAF documents detail “Project 1794”, an attempt by the Air Force to build a flying saucer with a top speed of Mach 4 and a range of 4,000 nautical miles)
1977 Radio Shack advertisement.
Mail Call Letterpack – You get two players that play only the cartridges you can buy from Smith Corona and you can send a 3, 6 or 10 minutes letter. Just $70 a pair in 1967, these would be $450 in today’s dollars. How is this better than a phone? They say, it has no static and it’s cheaper!
Life, 1967