Four-Day-Dead Soldier's Sperm for Fertilization
	If this intercession succeeds, it would be a world's first. A soldier's widow has achieved success in having sperm taken from his body and frozen four days after he died in Iraq. Sgt. Dayne Darren Dhanoolal, 26, assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 69th Armour Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, in west Georgia, died on March 31 because of an explosion that occurred near his vehicle, in Baghdad. Hi ... [read more >>]
	09 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Army of Terracotta Soldiers
	In 1974, while digging for a well, the Chinese farmers from a village in the Shaanxi province discovered several terracotta statues. They were the first of thousands of statue-soldiers of an army buried in the tomb of the Chinese emperor Qin Shihuang, who died 2,200 years ago. The 8,099 soldiers, 300 horses and 200 chariots guard the tomb of the emperor. The combatants were placed in 40 lines, like in a parade, on a length of 200 m (66 ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2008, 09:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Roman Army: The Base of a Mighty Empire
	Romans created and maintained the greatest ancient Empire for centuries, spreading their Greek-influenced culture. Their culture was the model for subsequent European cultures. About 40 % of the people in the European Union speak a language of Latin origin (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and others). But the power of the Roman Empire relied on its army and, when the Roman army and its tactics failed, the Empire fell. Fo ... [read more >>]
	18 March 2008, 10:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

10 Things You Did not Know About Ancient Greeks
	1. Ancient Greek culture founded the western culture, with its modern traits of developing intellectual and scientific skills, a culture based on reasoning, investigation and experimentation. Ancient Greeks developed medicine, logics, aesthetics, metaphysics, mathematics and geometry, and this gave them a profound intellectual formation, allowed then to live more, made complex measurements that eased their trade and determined them to live ... [read more >>]
	05 February 2008, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Assyrians, the Lords of the Massacres
	Assyrians were one of the most warlike people in history, lovers of the violence of the war and hunt. Amongst the people of the ancient Middle East, they were famous for their cruelty. At the peak of its power, Assyria stretched from Egypt to Persian Gulf. Their aggressiveness was partially attributed to their location: Assyria was in northern Mesopotamia, north of Babylon. As no natural bounders like shores or mountains were found there, ... [read more >>]
	26 January 2008, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Army Doubles the Suicide Probability
	If war does not kill them, veterans will kill themselves anyway. A recent research at Portland State University and Oregon Health & Science University has shown that male veterans present a double likelihood of committing suicide as compared to their civilian counterparts. "We clearly demonstrated that independent of when they served in the military, veterans were all equally at risk for suicide. What’s more, we show ... [read more >>]
	12 June 2007, 09:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Slaps The Pentagon
	Google's representatives offered a funny reply to the recently imposed ban for the US soldiers looking for entertainment content on YouTube. Earlier this week, the Pentagon blocked YouTube on all the computers connected to the Defense Department network because they regarded the website as a loss of bandwidth. However, Google's officials replied with a funny statement, accusing the Pentagon for inventing the Internet. "Th ... [read more >>]
	18 May 2007, 15:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

US Soldiers Banned On YouTube
	The US soldiers are now banned on YouTube after the Department of Defense decided to block the access on numerous online website including Google's video sharing service. Besides YouTube, the troops are banned on MySpace, MTV, Hi5, Pandora and some other Internet websites. Although the official refused to sustain other reasons than official matters, the army's access on these websites was restricted from the Department ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2007, 09:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pollen to Detect the Origins of the Terracotta Army
	Since their discovery in 1974 in Shaanxi province, the ancient Chinese terracotta army posed a puzzle: Ancient pollen could lead scientists to the kilns where the figures in China's terracotta army were made. The 2,200-year-old clay army made of 8,099 soldiers, 300 horses and 200 chariots guards the tomb of Qin Shihuang (260-210 BC), the first emperor of the unified China (from Quin dynasty comes the western name of ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2007, 09:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Chamaeleon Soldiers
	The invisible soldier is the dream of any troop commander. But till an invisibility cloak will be created, a science project realized by two school students could very well become an important defense strategy employed by soldiers. Using the so-called electrochromism, the students have made a soldier's uniform that can hide the soldier into any surrounding. This achievement was done by employing a material that can c ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2007, 08:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia