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Marshal of Finland (Suomen Marsalkka) Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim is the most towering figure in Finnish history—a man who was essentially a cosmopolitan Russian Imperial officer before becoming the "Father of Modern Finland." Surprisingly, the man who saved Finland from the USSR spent 30 years as a loyal servant to the Russian Tsar. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant General in the Imperial Russian Army. He was a highly decorated cavalry officer and even participated in the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II. When the Soviet Union invaded Finland in 1939, Mannerheim (at age 72) was the only choice for Commander-in-Chief. He oversaw two critical conflicts: The Winter War (1939–1940): This war saw the iconic use of ski troops and Molla-style (Molotov cocktails). Despite a massive disparity in aircraft and armor, Finland held out for 105 days, inflicting catastrophic losses on the Red Army. The Continuation War (1941–1944): Finland fought alongside Germany to reclaim lost territory,...

  Historically, the Island of Ireland never had any species of snakes living on it During the last glacial period, Ireland was too cold for any reptiles to survive. When the ice melted and the seas rose, Ireland was cut off from mainland Europe and Britain much earlier than Great Britain was cut off from the continent. Snakes are slow migrators. By the time the climate was warm enough for them to move north, the Irish Sea was already a formidable barrier that they couldn't cross. However, Christian belief says that St Patrick rid the island of snakes. Well, that is how you demonise others based on faith. Those "snakes" were actually widely understood as a symbol for Druidic or Pagan practices. By "driving them out," the story celebrates St. Patrick’s success in converting the Irish tribes to Christianity and ending the dominance of the old Celtic religions. In Christian iconography of that era, the serpent was a primary symbol of evil or the devil (stemming from...

After the Anglo-Bhutan War (1864–1865), the British annexed the region known as the Western Dooars. Following the war with Bhutan, the British formalized their control over these "Duars." The first part of the name, "Ali," refers to Colonel Hedayat Ali, who served as the first Extra Assistant Commissioner of the district during the British administration. Colonel Ali was a key figure in establishing the administrative headquarters in the area. The settlement that grew around his camp was named "Alipur" in his honor. The suffix "Duar" (meaning "door" or "gateway" in Bengali, Assamese, and Hindi) refers to the region's geographical position. The area consists of several "duars"(Dooars) or mountain passes that serve as the entrance from the plains of India into the foothills of the Himalayas and the Kingdom of Bhutan. Historically, there were 18 such gateways (11 on the Bengal side and 7 on the Assam side). Alipurdu...

  DO YOU KNOW Due to some twist of history, in case the French people decide to restore their monarchy, then the next King of France is an Indian?? Yes, the direct blood descendent of the House of Bourbon is a resident of Bhopal and practices law in the Courts in Bhopal. The gentleman I am referring to is Balthazar Napoleon IV de Bourbon. The lineage traces back to Prince Jean-Philippe de Bourbon. Jean-Philippe was a French nobleman (purportedly a nephew or cousin of King Henri IV) who fled France in 1560 after killing a man in a duel. After a series of events involving pirates and shipwrecks and being sold as a slave in the slave market in Egypt, he ended up at the court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar. He rose to prominence, married a sister of one of Akbar's wives (a Christian woman named Lady Juliana), and was given the title of "Raja of Shergar." Two sisters—Dona Maria Mascarenhas and Juliana—were captured by pirates and brought to Akbar's court. While the names soun...

The damn King of Belgium Leopold II carried out a massacre in African Congo resulting in a or a catastrophic population decline estimated at roughly 10 million Congolese people.......NOBODY RECORDS IT AS A HOLOCAUST!! Those he did not kill had their limbs chopped off. Leopold II did not hold the Congo as a colony of Belgium but as his own private possession, exploiting it for rubber and ivory. Leopold's brutal regime was enforced by a private mercenary army called the Force Publique. They enforced high production quotas by burning villages, taking women and children hostage, and conducting mass killings. Force Publique soldiers were tasked with bringing back the severed hands of Congolese people—sometimes the hands of the living—as proof of bullets used to kill rebels or those who did not meet rubber quotas. How much has Belgium paid to Congo?? ZERO There is no national reparations agreement between Belgium and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Belgian government has ...

  NO DISRESPECT TO ANY SOLDIER HERE: NEITHER INTENDED NO IMPLIED THIS IS AN OBSERVATION/COMMETARY ON THE NARRATIVE PEDDLED I myself am a former military aviator and combat veteran Accha by the way, the "second pilot", actually the Weapon System Officer(WSO), we are told is a Colonel. Yeah the one who was rescued by destroying 2 C-130s, several helicopters on ground. The average age for a Colonel (O-6) in the U.S. Air Force, including Weapon Systems Officers (WSOs) in the F-15E, typically ranges from 44 to 48 years old. Average out at 46. The Commander of an F-15E Wing is a Colonel and will frequently fly to maintain currency and lead from the front. Why would a Colonel fly in the back seat? Anyways he flew in the backseat. We are also told that the Colonel was injured. We are also told that he trekked across semi mountainous terrain, 172 kms(107 miles), evading Iranian soldiers and hostile locals using evade and escape technique. We are also told that he CLIMBED ACROSS A 7000...

Begum Farhat Noor Khan was the wife of Air Marshal Nur Khan, one of Pakistan’s most legendary military and civil leaders (Commander-in-Chief of the PAF and Governor of West Pakistan). Begum Farhat Noor Khan (full name: Princess Farhat Sultan Begum) was the eldest daughter of Captain Aziz-ul-Mulk Shahzada Sultan Aziz of the Durrani Dynasty (specifically the Sadozai clan). This was the royal house of the Afghan Empire, founded by Ahmad Shah Durrani. Begum Farhat Noor Khan used her royal and military standing to institutionalize social welfare within the Pakistan Air Force. In 1965, she founded the PAF Women Association(PAFWA), essentially creating a "royal-standard" support system for the families of servicemen, which remains a pillar of the Pakistani military social structure today Air Marshal Malik Nur Khan was an alumnus of the Royal Indian Military College (RIMC) in Dehradun and later commissioned into the Royal Indian Air Force in 1941. Nur Khan took over as the Commander-...

  Lancet, the world famous medical journal published a research paper on the effect of US sanctions on the population of the targeted countries between 1971 and 2021. Lancet, the world famous medical journal published a research paper on the effect of US sanctions on the population of the targeted countries between 1971 and 2021. 38 MILLION HUMANS HAVE DIED as a direct result of US Sanctions. The study, conducted by researchers from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)—including economists Francisco Rodríguez and Mark Weisbrot—is the first to attempt a large-scale, "causal" quantitative analysis of how sanctions affect mortality across the globe. In the last decade of the study, sanctions were associated with roughly 560,000 deaths per year—a number the researchers noted is comparable to the global death toll of armed conflicts. Children under the age of 5 accounted for 51% of these deaths. The impact was also heavily concentrated among the elderly (ages 60–80)....