World War 2

Magnetic amplifiers were used in the Univac Solid State, shown here being operated in 1961 by pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper. During the Second World War, the German military developed what were at the time some very sophisticated technologies, including the V-2 rockets it used to rain destruction on London.…

The act which is being described as a “desecration” of graves has seen police launch an appeal into the abhorrent act. Graves at the Ripon Cemetery in North Yorkshire were subjected to graffiti which has also seen a wave of condemnation pouring in over the disrespectful crime. The Russian Z…

Reported By:| Edited By: DNA Web Team |Source: DNA Web Desk |Updated: Mar 24, 2022, 10:59 PM IST The largest-known carnivorous dinosaur – Spinosaurus have long kept scientists wondering about how these water-loving beasts lived their lives. After a lot of research, scientists have finally got the answer. On March…

/ Americas Issued on: 23/03/2022 - 20:05 01:54 In this file photo taken on July 26, 2016 Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, on July 26, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. © Saul Loeb, AFP Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World…

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War Two but rose to become the first female US secretary of state and, in her later years, a pop culture feminist icon, has died at the age…

In Review This show looks back at a ‘notoriously glum epoch in British art’ The “cataclysm” of the Second World War overshadowed life in Britain for decades, said Laura Cumming in The Observer. By its end, the country had been all but bankrupted and its big cities lay in ruins.…

The late John Shuttleworth at the age of 18. Shuttleworth died March 8, at the age of 98. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star From the battlefields of Europe to the streets of Windsor, John Shuttleworth never shied from danger. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your…

A girl holds her sibling in a temporary shelter for Ukrainian refugees in a school in Przemysl, near the Ukrainian-Polish border. People who have fled Ukraine have found refuge at a centre near Auschwitz. There are about 50 refugees holed up there, most of them women and children. More than…

The border crossing between Finland and Russia in Nuijamaa on March 9.ALESSANDRO RAMPAZZO/AFP/Getty Images Finland is beefing up its defences amid the heightened risk of cyberattacks, disinformation and espionage from Moscow. There is a general sense of unease among Finnish security agencies, government departments and Helsinki residents about the Kremlin’s…

People with children from Kyiv’s Central Children’s Hospital board an evacuation train from Kyiv to Lviv at Kyiv central train station amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv March 7, 2022. — Reuters pic WASHINGTON, March 9 — Russia said it is ready to provide humanitarian corridors today for people…