During the Second World War, the Marine Corps Command of the United States was confronted by a difficult problem of providing secrecy of communicated messages.

Once Nasreddin Hodja heard that the rich moneylender Jafar had fallen sick and promised big money for a cure...

In the days of Peter the First, soldiers were mainly recruited from peasants' children...

A young Englishwoman was about to go somewhere in a car: the child was in place, the cosmetics bag was in her handbag, and the car was waiting in the yard...