The United States launched an airstrike Thursday evening. According to Fox News, it resulted in the death of an Iranian general and other military officials at Baghdad International Airport in Iraq. This is a major blow to the Obama Administration 2015 Iran deal . The Hudson Institute points this out in an article here, so... Continue Reading →
C627 Tamerlane the Merciless
Tamerlane, is known in his native Uzbekistan as Amir Timur, or Timur the Great, but in the West he is remembered from his epithet, Timurlenke (Turkish) or in Persian Timur-i lang (Temur the Lame). He was one of history's greatest and cruelest conquerors. Early days of Timur Edgar Allen Poe wrote a poem for him,... Continue Reading →