vz. 77 DANA (152mm self-propelled gun howitzer)

152mm self-propelled gun howitzer vz. 77 DANA is an artillery weapon built on Tatra 815 VP31 29 265 8x8.1R chassis with automatic loading capable of providing effective fire support to ground troops.
It is designed to engage enemy artillery and mortars, silencing and destroying command posts, fire and radio technical means and enemy's live forces, demolishing permanent defensive structures and field defence objects. May conduct direct (circular if necessary) and indirect fire.

Ivan IV. Terrible - Murderer and Christian on the Throne

The great boyar and princely families were both supporters and opponents of the Muscovite dynasty in the 14th and 15th centuries. The power of the Grand Prince of Moscow protected them from the ravages of local wars and nomadic raids, but they also sought to share in this power. In this ambiguous relationship of the boyars to the monarch, respect for the authority of the throne clearly prevailed after the death of Vasily III (1533). They stood up for his then three-year-old son Ivan and did not abandon him even after the death of his mother Yelena Glinskaya (she was poisoned in 1538). They ruled in his name, enriched themselves, but did not allow the right of the underage monarch to be questioned. Both uncles of little Ivan - Yuri and Andrei, brothers of Vasily III - ended up in the famine. This loyalty of the boyars to little Ivan was primarily the work of their egotism, which commanded to support a ruler who could not rule himself. This opened the way for the powerful families to have unlimited oligarchic rule.

Darius II

Artaxerxes I, who died in 424 BC, was followed by his son Xerxes II. After a month and half Xerxes II was murdered by his brother Sogdianus. His illegitimate brother, Ochus, satrap of Hyrcania, rebelled against Sogdianus, and after a short fight killed him, and suppressed by treachery the attempt of his own brother Arsites to imitate his example. Ochus adopted the name Darius. Neither the names Xerxes II nor Sogdianus occur in the dates of the numerous Babylonian tablets from Nippur; here effectively the reign of Darius II follows immediately after that of Artaxerxes I.

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