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The Viking Age (793–1066 CE) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America.  It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age. The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia but also to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period. The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the sense of being engaged in piracy.  Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, and the Baltic coast and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe, where they were also known as Varangians.  They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Norma

  10 Weird Things That Only Exist In North Korea The report is based on interviews with 62 North Koreans who fled the country and provided detailed accounts of rape and sexual abuse. The group said it revealed a culture of open, unaddressed abuse, particularly from men in positions of power. "They consider us [sex] toys. We are at the mercy of men," Oh Jung-hee, a former trader in her 40s told the report's authors. "Sometimes, out of nowhere, you cry at night and don't know why." According to HRW some women said that sexual abuse had become so normalised that they did not think it was "unusual" - with some saying it had become accepted as part of everyday life.  Considering that North Korea - formally (and ironically) known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea - is commonly referred to as a "hermit kingdom," quite a lot is known about this reclusive, isolated nation of 25 million people. Its recent ballistic missile tests mad

  Black Gold . The lifeblood of any modern war machine, and the Nazis knew it. They craved it, needed it to fuel their mechanized hordes, the panzers that rolled across Europe and the Luftwaffe that darkened the skies. But their thirst for oil would prove to be their Achilles' heel, a fatal flaw in their grand design for conquest. Before the war even started, the Nazis were stockpiling oil, aware of their own vulnerability. They gobbled up oil fields in Austria and Czechoslovakia like a starving wolf, but it wasn't enough to sustain their hunger. They turned their eyes east, to the oil-rich Caucasus region of the Soviet Union, a prize they believed would secure their victory. Operation Barbarossa, their brutal invasion of the Soviet Union, was fueled in part by this desperate need for oil. But the Red Army wasn't going down without a fight. They scorched the earth, leaving the Nazis with nothing but smoldering ruins and empty pipelines. The Nazis were forced to rely on Roma

But let's not kid ourselves, it wasn't an anomaly. It was a symptom, a festering pustule on the rotting corpse of a conflict that had long since lost its soul. Take the Tiger Force of the 101st, a pack of rabid dogs unleashed in the jungles of the Central Highlands. These weren't your average grunts, no sir. These were hand-picked killers, honed to a razor's edge by the crucible of war. They descended on villages like a plague, leaving a trail of carnage in their wake. Women, children, the elderly – none were spared their wrath. They took trophies, gruesome reminders of their savagery, severed heads strung up like macabre ornaments. There's the Phoenix Program, a shadowy operation run by spooks and sanctioned at the highest levels. It was a war fought in the shadows, a dirty war where the rules were written in blood. Suspected Viet Cong sympathizers were rounded up, interrogated, tortured, and often executed. Their bodies, dumped in unmarked graves. Those are just t