(1/3) Fritz Klingenberg. Captured Belgrade, Yugoslavia's capital, with just 6 men in WW2 and a drunk German tourist. When asked how he did it: "I was not too preoccupied at the time, and found something to do."
Emperor Joshua Norton. America's Only Emperor. After losing a fortune investing in Peruvian rice, he became destitute. He then declared himself emperor. In SanFran, he walked around blue uniform with gold-plated epaulettes with beaver hat with peacock. Police saluted him.
Studies begin on gigantism in so-called Siberian Jungle, the territory of black taiga with exceptional biodiversity. Novosibirsk, Tomsk &Saint Petersburg scientists will study why grass in black taiga reaches size of bushes & why bushes may grow over trees in an ‘ordinary' forest
Gaiseric leader of the Vandals and Alans who sack Rome and found pirate kingdom in North Afreaka. Alans were Iranid steppe tribe who join the Vandals in their travels from Scandinavia. They sought tropical lands, the sun and open seas
Caribbean Rhythms Episode 73 secret story of France on the BIOLOGICAL basis of all civilization and culture; show on Gobineau and his great book, steampunk father of raycissm
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Hitler's Stonehenge (Muchołapka). Located in southern Poland, no one is sure what it's purpose was. It's known to have been part of Project Riese. Theories range being a missile launch site to the base of a water cooling tower to a time-travel machine that Hitler used to escape.
Mussolini’s Sword of Islam. After creating Italian Libya, Mussolini proclaimed himself as Protector of Islam The Berbers leader gave him the Sword of Islam in his honor. It was kept in Mussolini’s summerhouse until 1943 when it was stormed.
No one knows where it is today.
Luttwak on mediocrity of CIA and its repeated failures in front of Russian intelligence; American culture doesn't support competent intel services.
Luttwak good on many things, will be poasting more clips
Mount Namuli, Mozambique
Extremely underexplored. Because of Mozambique's civil war and difficulty to climb, it has only been reached a handful of times.
This sky island is believed to have untold biodiversity waiting for a thorough expedition.