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Stormfall: Age of War is a social browser game created in 2012 by Plarium and then moved to Facebook in November. [1] [2] [3] This game franchise builds on the success of Plarium's earlier Facebook titles in the crowded web-based PvP strategy game market, though a pay-to-win aspect of the game raises concerns. [4]
Stormfall: Age of War has what might be hours of voice-over work. In what seems to be a trademark for the Israeli social game studio, Plarium's latest game on Facebook comes not just with medieval ...
Colditz Castle. / 51.1310; 12.8074. Colditz Castle (or Schloss Colditz in German) is a Renaissance castle in the town of Colditz near Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz in the state of Saxony in Germany. The castle is between the towns of Hartha and Grimma on a hill spur over the river Zwickauer Mulde, a tributary of the River Elbe.
Buchenwald ( German pronunciation: [ˈbuːxn̩valt]; literally ' beech forest ') was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within the Altreich. Many actual or suspected communists were among the first internees.
Battle of Castle Itter. / 47.47056°N 12.13972°E / 47.47056; 12.13972. The Battle of Castle Itter was fought on 5 May 1945, in the Austrian village of Itter in the North Tyrol region of the country, during the last days of the European Theater of World War II . Troops of the 23rd Tank Battalion of the 12th Armored Division of the US ...
Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps ( German: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945). [1] Germany signed the Third Geneva Convention of 1929, which established norms relating to the treatment of prisoners of war. Article 10 required PoWs be lodged in adequately heated and lighted buildings where conditions ...
Task Force Baum, also known as the Hammelburg raid was a secret and controversial World War II task force set up by U.S. Army General George S. Patton and commanded by Capt. Abraham Baum in late March 1945. Baum was given the task of penetrating 50 miles (80 km) behind German lines and liberating the POWs in camp Oflag XIII-B, near Hammelburg.
Forecastle. Replica of the Victoria, the only one of Ferdinand Magellan 's five ships to return to Spain in 1522, showing both a forecastle (left) and quarterdeck (right). The forecastle ( / ˈfoʊksəl / ⓘ FOHK-səl; contracted as fo'c'sle or fo'c's'le) [1] [2] is the upper deck of a sailing ship forward of the foremast, or, historically ...