- Bran Castle
Bran Castle, situated near Bran and in the immediate vicinity of Braşov, Romania, is a national monument and landmark. Commonly known as Dracula's Castle, Bran Castle was originally built as a stronghold by the Teutonic Knights in 1212. The first documentary attestation of Bran Castle is the act issued by Louis I of Hungary on November 19, 1377, giving the Saxons of Kronstadt (Braşov) the privilege to build the Citadel.
- Menno van Coehoorn
Menno, baron van Coehoorn (1641 - March 17, 1704), Dutch soldier and military engineer, of Swedish extraction. He made a number of weaponry innovations in siege warfare and fortification techniques. He was born at Leeuwarden in Friesland. He received an excellent military and general education, and at the age of sixteen became a captain in the Dutch army. In Anglo-Dutch Wars he took part in the defence of Maastricht in 1673 and in the siege of Grave in 1674, …
- John Trumbull
John Trumbull (June 6, 1756 - November 10, 1843) was an American artist during the period of the American Revolutionary War famous for his historical paintings including his "Declaration of Independence", which appears on the reverse of the $2 dollar bill.
- Henri Alexis Brialmont
Henri Alexis Brialmont (May 25, 1821 - June 21, 1903) was a Belgian military engineer. He was one of the leading fortifications engineers in the 19th century. He was son of General Laurent Mathieu Brialmont (d. 1885) and was born in Venlo, Limburg. Brialmont was educated at the Brussels military school, he entered the army as sub-lieutenant of engineers in 1843, and became lieutenant in 1847. From 1847 to 1850 he was private secretary to the war minister, …
- Dennis Hart Mahan
Dennis Hart Mahan (April 2, 1802 - September 16, 1871) was a noted American military theorist and professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He was the father of American naval theorist Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan. A native of New York City, Mahan graduated from West Point in 1824. He started teaching at the academy soon after and was sent to Europe to study. In 1830 he was promoted to professor of civil and military engineering.
- César Cui
César Antonovich Cui (January 6, 1835 (Old Style)-March 13, 1918) was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications; his avocational life has particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer and music critic; in this sideline he is known as a member of The Five, …
- Ian V. Hogg
Ian V. Hogg was a notable British author of books on firearms, artillery, ammunition, and fortification, as well as biographies of several famous general officers. During his career he wrote, co-wrote, edited, or co-edited about 150 books and sold well over 1 million copies (Walter 2002).
- Walter Model
Otto Moritz Walter Model (24 January 1891 – 21 April 1945) was a German General and later Field Marshal during World War II. He is noted for his defensive battles in the latter half of the war, mostly on the Eastern Front but also in the west, and for his close association with Adolf Hitler and Nazism. He has been called the Wehrmacht's best defensive tactician. Although he was a hard-driving, aggressive panzer commander early in the war, …
- Pietro Antonio Solari
Pietro Antonio Solari, also known as Pyotr Fryazin (b. after 1450, Milan(?) - 1493, Moscow) was an Italian architect. Pietro Solari's teacher was his father Guiniforte Solari, himself an architect and sculptor. In 1476, Pietro Solari was hired to continue the construction of the Duomo di Milano. Later on, he was in charge of several construction projects in Milan.
- Louis de Cormontaigne
Louis de Cormontaigne was a French military engineer. He was the successor of Vauban. Together, they designed the fortifications of Metz. An arch bridge he build in Thionville, Moselle between 1745 and 1746, named "Cormontaigne Bridge" after him, is still in use today.
- Hans Vredeman de Vries
Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527 - c. 1607) was a Dutch Renaissance architect and engineer. Born in Leeuwarden and grown up in Friesland, in 1546 he went to Amsterdam and Kampen. In 1549 he moved to Mechelen where the Superior Court was seating. Sebastian, his brother was the organplayer in the local church. Vredeman de Vries designed ornaments for merry parades of Charles V and Philip II. Studying Vitruvius and Sebastiano Serlio, …
- Eli Cohen
Eli Cohen was a celebrated Israeli spy, and is recognized as one of the most successful spies of modern times. Born in Egypt, Cohen contributed to pro-Israeli activities in Egypt during the 1950s, but the most important part of his career began when he was recruited into Israeli military intelligence in 1960. He was given a false identity as a Syrian Arab who was returning to Syria after living in Argentina. To establish his cover, Cohen moved to Argentina in 1961.
- Andreas Cellarius
Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596 Neuhausen, - 1665, Hoorn) was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his "Harmonia Macrocosmica" of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam. He was born in Neuhausen near Worms, Germany, and was educated in Heidelberg. The protestant Cellarius may have left Heidelberg at the onset of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 or in 1622 when the city came in Catholic hands.
- Girolamo Maggi
Girolamo Maggi (abt. 1523-March 27, 1572), or Hieronymus Magius was an Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician, and naturalist who studied at Bologna under Francis Robortello. He authored several works, including a collection of poems on the Flemish wars, ("Cinque primi canti della guerra di Fiandra", 1551), …
- John Rosworm
John Rosworm or Rosworme ("fl." 1630 - 1660) was a Dutch or German soldier and military engineer who served the Parliamentarian cause during the English Civil War. After serving throughout Europe, Rosworm settled in Manchester in 1642 where the town engaged him on a GBP30, six-month contract to lead their defence against the Royalist Lord Strange. Despite an approach from Strange to defect to the Royalists, …
- Christopher H. Sterling
Christopher H. Sterling (born April 16, 1943 in Washington, D.C.) is a professor of media and public affairs at the George Washington University (Washington DC) where he has taught since 1982. Author of more than 20 books on electronic media and telecommunications topics and many articles, his primary research interests center upon the history and policy development of electronic media and telecommunications.
- Elena Filatova
Elena (Lena) Filatova is a Ukrainian motorcyclist who gained Internet fame in 2004 under the nickname KiddOfSpeed after her website was mentioned at Slashdot and other online news sources. On her website, she posted photographs of her alleged motorcycle trips in the area around the Chernobyl nuclear plant, 18 years after the nuclear disaster there. She mainly visited the virtually abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine. Filatova took a large number of photographs of buildings, …
- Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut
Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut (c. 1639 - 25 February 1710) was a French soldier and explorer who is the first European known to have visited the area where the city of Duluth, Minnesota is now located and the headwaters of the Mississippi River near Grand Rapids. His name is sometimes anglicized as "DuLuth" and is the namesake of Duluth, Minnesota. He was born in Saint-Germain-Laval, near Lyon, France, and first visited New France in 1674.
- Tieba Traoré
Tieba Traoré was a king of the Kénédougou Empire who reigned from 1876 until his death in 1893. Son of the previous king, Mansa Douala, Traoré moved the Empire's capital to Sikasso, building a palace on the city's Mamelon hill. Traoré fought a number of battles with both Dyula conqueror Samory Touré and the rapidly advancing French colonial army, including a prolonged French siege of Sikasso from 1887 to 1888.
- Pyotr Saltykov
Count Pyotr Semyonovich Saltykov (1697 - 1772) was a Russian statesman and a military figure, adjutant general (1762), son of Semyon Saltykov. In 1714, Pyotr Saltykov was sent by Peter the Great to France to master the science of navigation and remained there for some 20 years. In 1759, during the Seven Years' War of 1756-1763, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian army and would soon win a victory at Palzig (Battle of Kay) and Kunersdorf.
- Hero Of Byzantium
Hero of Byzantium is believed to be the literary pseudonym of an otherwise anonymous Byzantine author of a poliorketikon, an illustrated manual of siegecraft, dating from "circa" 950. He is also credited with the "Geodaesia", a work in practical geometry and ballistics which makes use of locations around Constantinople to illustrate its points. His "Poliorketikon" was an adaptation of an earlier (c. 100) poliorcetic manual of Apollodorus, …
- Archibald Arnott
Archibald Arnott (b. 18 April 1772, Kirconnel Hall, Ecclefechan, Dumfries, Scotland - d. 1855, Kirconnel Hall, Ecclefechan, Dumfries, Scotland) was a British Army surgeon best remembered as Napoleon's doctor on St. Helena, and who was present at the Emperor's autopsy. He moved back to Ecclefechan in his retirement and he is buried in Ecclefechan churchyard. He entered the British Army on 14 April 1795 and was posted to the 11th Hussars as Assistant Surgeon.
- Otto Boehler
Otto Boehler (15 October 1873 Germany- 15 October 1915 was a United States Army private awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for actions during the Moro Rebellion during the Philippine-American war. He was one of Young's Scouts, who won one of 6 Medals of Honor awarded for members of Young's Scouts on 16 May 1899, commanded by Captain William E. Birkhimer of the 1st North Dakota Volunteer Regiment. Private Boehler is buried in the St.
- Matt Freed
I'm an adrenile junkie. I can be found climbing rocks most weekends or maybe straigtening the curves of some mountain road with my bad motorcycle. I am a member of the new-world famous paintball team, Team Stealth Possum check us out at stealthpossum.org.
- Scott Scherer
Hi, I'm Scott. I like video games and cars and stuff. If you know me then you know what I'm like so let's cut the crap.
- Mark Paradise
I am a dj and promoter. Any bands interested in coming to play in Tampa. Please feel free to shoot me a message. I have promoted numerous shows in the area and have been djing at the Castle for the past eight years. I usually dj every other saturday. Also a random warning. If you do not want to be messaged by me than do not add me to your friends list.
- Kristine Mariano
i'm quite obsessed with music. i've lived in berlin. ich spreche deutsch. i am an integral part of a prairie dog coterie. i sometimes return to the heavenly hall of slain warriors.
- Brandy Baldwin
Crimson Star Productions is a Memphis, Tennessee based music and event management agency that showcases local and national acts with any genre of music and live performances.
- Barbara Strange
Don't miss Babara Strange, Tripelexir and other Missouri Goths in American Goth, a feature conversational documentary movie. Director, producer, cinematography, editor, narrator: Ryan Rhea; Executive Producer: Michael Lynch, Original music Soundtrack: PJ Corvus, November, 2005. Purchase your copy TODAY!!! Email Ryan Rhea (Ryan_Rhea@aismail.wustl.edu) for more information.
- Alyssa Turner
::Our perception of the exterior is a reflection of our interior:: ::There is no real me: only an entity,something illusory::.
- Gabriel Jimenez
MySpace Contact Tabless.
- Amy Smith
You have been marked on my profile map! Click to zoom-in.
- Michael Weeks
i had something here once, but i'm not sure what it meant. i think it's time i updated this, but i don't know with what. lets try the generic route!
- Candice
HIM ~ Pretending.
- Elise
Mr. Oizo - Flat beat.
- Bart
I like Belgian beer :-) Duvel, Export and Westmalle Triple are my favourites. I also like to drink a glass of red or white wine. I'm addicted to music since I was 12 years old. Then I discovered a lot of new wave/gothic and punk bands. It all started with the Ramones, still one of my favourite bands. For the moment I really like minimal synth/electro. I sell some records, please contact me if you're interested then I'll send you a list. I also like discogs.
- Adrian
I like shiny things!
- Fernand
You're going to have to ask.... But I was a promoter in Philadelphia and New Jersey for Sanctuary, Metamorphosis, Synergy, Barcode and a few other events that my friend Jim and I headed up under Dark-Realm Produktions. I do frequent clubs and events throughout the tri-state area you may catch me at one. Look for the guy keeping to the beat and dancing his ass off.
- Persephone
I have had a total rude awakening in these past few days...I realized most things I thought was right were actually wrong..and some people who claim are your friends only say they are but when you really need them they are never there...I know I only have a handful of people and I appreciate them. I will not waste anymore of my time on those people who hide bahind plastic smiles..
- Luis Silva