The Ratte – The Biggest Tank Ever Designed
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Showdown In The Dardanelles – Bulgaria Flirts With The Central Powers I THE GREAT WAR Week 36
02 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace
Showdown In The Dardanelles – Bulgaria Flirts With The Central Powers I THE GREAT WAR Week 36
02 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
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Not Green: Eagles Constant Victims of Wind Industry’s Endless Bird Slaughter
01 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
With the world’s wind turbines slicing and dicing thousands of eagles, owls, hawks, and kites every day, wind farms are more slaughterhouses than power generators.
Millions of tonnes of beneficial bugs get splattered annually, along with millions of birds and bats, some of them being among the last of their kind. At the apex of the avian carcass heap are the thousands of eagles, wiped out in the blink of an eye.
Cars, cats and skyscrapers don’t kill Eagles – like the critically endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, but 60m wind turbine blades with their tips travelling at 350Kph routinely smash them out of existence. Although, as this story from the Netherlands details, the victims often die a slow and horrible death.
White-tailed eagle, once again tagged in the Netherlands, killed by wind turbine
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Stef van Rijn, Dirk van Straalen and Ralph Buij
4 February 2022
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March 31, 1492: The Alhambra Decree
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The Alhambra Decree (also known as the Edict of Expulsion) was an edict issued on March 31, 1492, by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella I of Castile and Fernando II of Aragon) ordering the expulsion of practising Jews from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon and its territories and possessions by July 31, of that year.
King Fernando II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile.
The primary purpose was to eliminate the influence of practising Jews on Spain’s large formerly-Jewish conversion New Christian population, to ensure the latter and their descendants did not revert to Judaism. Over half of Spain’s Jews had converted as a result of the religious persecution and pogroms which occurred in 1391.
Due to continuing attacks, around 50,000 more had converted by 1415. A further number of those remaining chose to convert to avoid expulsion. As a result of the Alhambra decree…
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