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The word Buddha means "awakened one" or "the enlightened one". "Buddha" is also used as a title for the first awakened being in an era. Siddhartha Gautama is regarded as the Supreme Buddha of our age. Gautama taught a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and the severe asceticism found in the Sramana (renunciation) movement common in his region. He later taught throughout regions of eastern India such as Magadha and Kosala. Gautama is the pri...

Indian Constitution is the basis of parliamentary system of government where the executive is directly accountable to the legislature. Constitutional History is a significant subject. Hence, it requires exclusive books. There is a dearth of exhaustive and comprehensive books, on this topic. This modest endeavour is aimed at filling the same vacuum. This exclusive book covers all aspects and dimensions of the subject. This compact book is bound...

Alexander, the great, perhaps, the most prominent, among the conquerors and ablest of generals, in world history, was initially the King of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia. Alexander spent most of his ruling years, on an unprecedented military campaign, through Asia and northeast Africa, until by the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires of the known world, stretching from Greece to Egypt and extending to northwest In...

This book discusses some of the most important inventions that we use in our daily life and which have come a long way in serving the humans. The author discusses how these important inventions were invented and have developed a lot over a period of time.

Napoléon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and its associated wars. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815. Napoleon dominated European affairs for nearly two decades while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He won the large majority of his 60 major battles and seized ...

Disasters have been a menace, throughout history. Earlier, disasters were, mainly due to natural happenings and unfortunate incidents, like epidemics, droughts, earthquakes, landslides, floods, wind storms, etc. But, with the rapid development of science and technology, now, disasters have become a part of our modern life. The apparent change in the scenario is that now, besides natural disasters, have emerged man-made disasters, like industri...

The books given information on the history of UAV, from its inception and its various use commercially and on the battlefield.

The book gives an account of the Falkland conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British overseas territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

The book gives a case for the extensive use of an irregular form of warfare in which small groups of combatants use mobile military tactics in the forms of ambushes and raids to combat a larger and less mobile formal army.

The great events in history are those where, upon special occasions, a man or a people have made a stand against tyranny, and have preserved or advanced freedom for the people. Sometimes tyranny has taken the form of the oppression of the many by the few in the same nation, and sometimes it has been the oppression of a weak nation by a stronger one....

World War I was a global war mostly centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war, a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and tactical stalemate. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, paving the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of t...

This book gives out speeches of 10 greatest military leaders the world history has seen. These speeches have motivated and comforted many. Some were brutal and filled with hatred and some motivated the fighting soldiers. Some military leaders included in the book are Order of the Day by Gen Eisenhower during the Normandy Invasion, Gen Patton to his Third Army, Gen Raul Castro during the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, Hitler's Munich...

Mother Teresa (1910-1997) was a Roman Catholic nun, who devoted her life to serving the poor and destitute around the world. She spent many years in Calcutta where she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation devoted to helping those in great need. In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and became a symbol of charitable selfless work. She was beatified in 2003, the first step on the path to sainthood, wit...

Since soft power is an intangible component of a state's power, it is difficult to measure its actual impact. The advantages of hard power such as military and economic resources are that they can be measured and compared, and their direct effects are more or less palpable. It is easy for example to compare Indian and Chinese military expenditures. It is impossible however to quantify the appeal of a country's values, culture, institutions or ...

Space warfare is combat that takes place in outer space, i.e. outside the atmosphere. Technically, as a distinct classification, it refers to battles where the targets themselves are in space. Space warfare therefore includes ground-to-space warfare, such as attacking satellites from the Earth, as well as space-to-space warfare, such as satellites attacking satellites. In 2020 military satellites and, to a lesser degree, commercial sate...

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Dalai Lama, Tibet's political leader, has strived to make Tibet an independent and democratic state from China. Following the Chinese Invasion of Tibet in 1959 he and his followers have been exiled to India. The Dalai Lamas are believed by Tibetan Buddhist followers to be manifestations of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion and the patron saint of Tibet. Bodhisattvas are believed to be enlightened beings who have postp...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is the second anthology of the adventures of the best-known detective of all time. The book consists of eleven stories.

There are few campaigns that, either in point of the immense scale upon which it was undertaken, the completeness of its failure, or the enormous loss of life entailed, appeal to the imagination in so great a degree as that of Napoleon against Russia. Fortunately, we have in the narratives of Sir Robert Wilson, British commissioner with the Russian army, and of Count Segur, who was upon Napoleon's staff, minute descriptions of the events as se...

Countries throughout the world train Special Forces within their military, so coming up with a list of top Special Forces in the world is difficult at best. All special ops forces train their military men to be the best of the best, to take the impossible task and make it possible. Special Forces units traditionally shun publicity in their missions. They have often worked abroad in civilian clothes. Using a low visibility approach, they allow ...