There are so many, but here are a few from the top of my head:
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien.
Time Enough For Love, Robert A. Heinlein.
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein.
Don Quijote, Miguel de Cervantes.
Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri.
Dune, Frank Herbert.
Paradise Lost, John Milton.
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke.
The Riftwar Saga, Raymond E. Feist.
Jos 1900-luvun lopun RUK-kurssin pioneerikomppanian poikia on uskominen, niin miinakarttojen tarkkuusvaatimukset olivat kyllä ainakin tuolloin aika korkeat. Sen verran kovaa kiroten ne niistä aina puhuivat.
Omassa yksikössäni henkilömiinoitteiden laskeminen käsiteltiin yhden aamupäivän aikana, mutta kyllä meillekin painotettiin kuinka "nämä kaikki sitten kerätään joskus pois, joten merkitsette määrät ja sijainnit karttaan tarkasti". Ja sitten taisteluharjoituksessa tällä opilla pyyhittiin persettä ja käskettiin iskemään "sakarat hiekkatielle niin saatanan nopeasti kuin vaan mahdollista ja rasti karttaan jälkeenpäin."
Joten nähtäväksi jäisi, miten tositilanteessa toimittaisiin.
Oh, we have a lot of those. Here's a few from the top of my head:
Omata lehmän hermot / To have the nerves of a cow (a really calm person).
Lauhkea kuin lammas / As gentle as a sheep.
Viedä kuin pässiä narussa / Being lead around like a ram on a leash. (Stubborn as rams can be, they can be easily made to follow you if you don't walk in a straight line. You have to make small curves on your way to distract the ram. A metaphor of apparent deception.)
Viekas kuin kettu / Cunning as a fox.
Olla kuin perseeseen ammuttu karhu / To be like bear who's shot in the ass. (A truly pissed off person.)
Lämpö menee harakoille / The warmth goes to the magpies. (When a window or a door is kept open too long during cold weather.)
Some of you stumbled upon this, yes. But our teachers actually confirmed this crap to us in school, at least mine did.
Yes, or at least there used to be. It was "common knowledge" at least in the 80's and 90's, but I don't think the younger generations really know about that misconception anymore. Which is good.
Ukraine has lots of valuable natural resources, but Russia has much more of everything. The biggest reason for the invasion is most likely that Putin could not let a "brother nation" prosper and drift towards Europe and being a functioning democracy.
Russia's population might get wild ideas if they saw that their Ukrainian cousins' standard of living starts to rise rapidly while they have to endure living under a fascist dictator. And substandard and underdeveloped infrastructure, due to the rampant corruption and a government who doesn't give a shit about the areas outside the larger cities.
Russia and Trump lied ?
Inconceivable!
I fear they won't. They'll just try to do the trading in the dark.
Getting cheap energy and tightening Russia's leash for the same price is just too good deal for China to waste.
Yeah, that map shows the borders of the Soviet Union. It was the first I could find in a hurry, It's old but helped to prove my point that their landmass east of the Ural mountains is mostly wilderness. Here's a more up-to-date version that tells the same story:
Here is a map showing where the majority of Russia's population lives:
https://maps-russia.com/maps-russia-geography/russia-population-density-map
The largest part of Russia is the vast Siberia, which is basically just endless forests, mountains and arctic tundra with few cities here and there - and the winters can be extreme. If not for the rich resources and the jobs that extraction of those resources creates, not many would choose to live there.
Yes. Casualties are soldiers who either die in battle or get wounded badly enough to be taken out of action for a longer time.
Yeah, "Time Enough For Love" ended up on that list mostly because it's so different. That made an impression on me when I read it in high school, in the way of "Huh, I guess it's actually possible to write a book like this". It had a lot of interesting ideas but the narrative sprawls around pretty wildly.
Riftwar Saga basically takes Tolkien's Middle-earth setting and mixes it with our own world's Middle age cultures, plus magical stargates and an invasion from an another world. It's not a ripoff in any way, it carries it own story proudly but the similarities with names from Tolkien's works was a bit distracting at first. These were the first books I was able to read entirely in original English in my early teens.