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In the pre-war airliner sector, the Short Empire could still lay claim to being one of the most comfortable, luxurious, fastest, and downright fabulous ways to fly.A quad-engined flying boat that ...
CNN’s Peter Bergen interviews Harvard University historian Caroline Elkins about the legacy of the British Empire and the future of countries in the Commonwealth, where the British monarch ...
In the early weeks of World War I, the German cruiser SMS Emden, under Korvettenkapitän Karl von Müller, had already ...
Those lessons beckon today for Britain, and America, too. In the end, the empire — “the red on the map” — was a symbol, not the basis, of British influence. The home islands themselves, it could be ...
The Truth About Empire promises to be “a shield against the assault on historical truth.” Its authors might do well to visit Col. Pennycuick’s memorial at Camberley before it, too, is toppled.
Now part of Nigeria, Benin City was a mighty empire until the British invaded in 1897. ... Hew Locke, Armada Boat 6, 2018; Wood, fabric, metal, plastic, and mixed media, ...