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Oh, the British had nasty biological weapons and tested one of them to see just how destructive they were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island That Island was unsafe to set foot on for several decades. The nukes the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn't render those cities...

This is a decent explaination of why I dislike "what if's" where the Axis are expected to win. They were always going to lose and it wasn't going to be close in any somewhat realistic scenario where the US says "hi". US-550 in SW Colorado between Silverton and Ourey was actually more expensive...

That would only be applicable if the building is larger than the Amphitheatrum Flavium. The ruins of that ampitheatre are still present and standing in Rome. The Romans actually flooded it and conducted mock naval battles inside of it just to entertain the plebes.

Caravels were basically the 15th century equivalent of a racing yacht or sports car. La Santa Maria was a carrack built to haul cargo. She was massive when compared to a caravel and still tiny. Some of the funniest conversations I've been a part of were along the lines of "You could park...

Most people don't realize just how small wooden ships were. USS Constitution and HMS Victory are enormous wooden ships. USS Constitution is actually about 40 tons heavier than HMS Victory. Both are heavier than most WWII-era destroyers. A more typical one would be something like Niña. 55ish...