The German artist Peter von Hess performed in the forties of last century by the special order of Tsar Nikolay I of Russia twelve canvases describing different episodes of the Patriotic war. All these canvases are in the Winter Palace in St.Petersburg. Peter Heinrich Lambert von Hess (29 July 1792 – 4 April 1871) was a German painter, known for historic paintings, especially of the Napoleonic Wars and the Greek War of Independence. Peter von Hess initially received training from his father Carl Ernst Christoph Hess...

IM - 1776: DARING & CONQUEST "Counterrevolution: The Coming Storms": Q&A with Erik Prince There are two institutions through which the American Empire exercises global hegemonic power: the US dollar and the US military. Dollar supremacy helped establish the post-WWII American standard of living, when wealth became more widely distributed than at any other time in history. It was the golden era of the middle class. Foreign countries settled their international accounts in dollars that could be converted to gold at a fixed exchange rate of $35 per ounce, which was redeemable by the US government...