In 1941 a young Red Army senior sergeant tank commander lay seriously wounded in a Soviet field hospital. His shoulder shattered by a German bullet during the Battle of Bryansk. He was a victim of the German's vastly superior firearms, compared to which the Soviet carbines were outdated, unwieldy, with a poor rate of fire. Around him he could hear the cries of his wounded comrades, the young Mikhail Kalashnikov despaired for his homelands future. It was while lying injured that the former railway...

It is thought that the potato was first brought to Britain by Sir Walter Raleigh in the 1600's, but it is believed by some that the Belgians were the first to fry the potato to produce the chip and by others that it was the French.
Chips were a cheap food for the industrial north of England, and fried fish in batter was popular in London, although originally the batter was just used to protect the fish during frying, and was discarded before the fish was eaten.
The first Fish and Chip...

I have no idea what it is like in the rest of the world, but here in the UK media consumers are becoming almost tribal. People do not read or watch the news media to be informed any more, after all most of it is little more than gossip, people turn to their media of choice to reinforce their world view. If a newspaper prints something someone disagrees with it is not because that could be a better idea or point of view, it is because the offending media is pandering to either the uneducated bigoted...