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Midway is one of the most well known and discussed battles of the Pacific War. But far less known was that, at the same time, another Japanese carrier group was attacking another US held island some 1800 miles away.
In 1906, a famed explorer saw something on the horizon that would lead an expedition of men to search for a magnificent land they hoped would be full of new and undiscovered treasures for science.
One famous dolphin lived near the shores of New Zealand in the late 1800s, and swam alongside hundreds of ships, becoming a beloved figure to locals and foreigners alike, and described as ”the best known fish in the world.”
It was relatively common in the middle ages for Kings, royals, and various other titled men to die in combat, and they were at least usually expected to fight personally. Despite the dangers of medieval combat and the expectations of nobility, however, many at the highest levels of aristocracy died in less than noble mundane accidents, and even in embarrassing circumstances.
The Lapland war was the culmination of Finland’s unique and strange position in a gray area of a war that is often viewed as black and white.
On August first, 1798, the French warship L’Orient exploded, and, perhaps, changed to fate of Europe.
