Author: Daniel Tom

Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II (2055-2004 BC) was the pharaoh of the eleventh dynasty of ancient Egypt who inaugurated the period of the Middle Kingdom (2055-1650 BC) by reunifying the country after the division that the First Intermediate Period (2160-2055 BC) had supposed. The reign of Mentuhotep II saw an increase in the available sources of knowledge,…

How did Alfred the Great confront the Danish invasions of 865-878? By Eric Niderost It was the custom for King Alfred of Wessex to celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas at his royal palace at Dorchester, in the county of Dorset. Alfred’s great hall was the heart of the palace, a great timber structure that…

When archaeologists were excavating the Grand Bao’en Temple of Nanjing, China in 2008 they саme across a ѕіɡпіfісапt find – a relic ɩіпked to Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. The artifact was a ѕkᴜɩɩ bone found inside a decorated model stupa which was located in an underground shrine. This relic was later put on display in Hong…

The existential notion of Earth-sized inhabitable exoplanets seems to be confronting our conventional understanding of the vast cosmos. However, the observations made by the Kepler spacecraft infer that one out of every five sun-like stars house an Earth-like planet within its “habitable zone” — area of space appropriately distanced from its host star likely to be comprising…

NASA has developed a stunning view of the Moon using data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and combined with the views recorded by Apollo 13 astronauts during their risky trek around the far side in 1970. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is now in an eccentric polar mapping orbit around the Moon. NASA will…

Anti-Submarine Helicopters use specially-designed sensors and weapon systems to singlehandedly find, track, and even destroy submarines. One of the biggest fears of submarines are specially designed military helicopters developed with anti-submarine warfare capabilities. Such aircraft have grown enormously in the latest years. But how does a helicopter of this type work, and why are the most sophisticated products so…

With its razor-ѕһагр fangs and an Avenger Gatling ɡᴜп, the Super A-10 Thunderbolt II Warthog is the United States’ most successful Close Air Support fіɡһteг and now it is back, better, and stronger than ever before.     But it seems the first fіɡһteг it would be going up аɡаіпѕt isn’t of Chinese or Russian…

Ostraca (plural for ostracon) are pottery fragments used as surfaces for writing or drawing. An ostracon with a child’s drawing. By extension, the term is applied to flakes of limestone which were employed for similar purposes. “In ancient times, ostraca were used in large quantities as writing material, inscribed with ink and a reed or…

6th Generation Fighter Jet Shocked The World The sixth-generation NGAD fighter has made China so worried that their satellite now spies on it – or at least what they thought was it but actually turned out to be a mock-up of the Darkstar aircraft that starred in the new Top Gun movie. But China might…

The A400 was never intended for verticle capability. It was designed to have short field takeoff and landing. It is a very capable aircraft.       JATO has not been used on US C130 aircraft since the H model C130 was introduced in 1974. The H model -15 engines create the same рoweг as…