Did you know that New York was once called New Amsterdam. It was named after the Duke of York who organised the Mission to capture ir...

You have stolen 30 years of an innocent persons life in the guise of stopping him rising to greatness and prosperity. He couls have...

During the Spanish-American war, an American ship fired cannons at a Spanish owned island. None of the cannonballs did any damage. The...

In 1958, Mao Zedong made sparrows enemy #1 and ordered all sparrows to be killed because he felt they ate too much grain and hindered...

The Miedzymorze, or called Intermarium in Latin, which mean “across the seas”, was first proposed by Polish hero Jozef Pilsudski, the man...

That’s the number of possible code settings in the Wehrmacht version of Enigma that really mattered. And the code settings were set for...

This is a bit Longer than usual but it’s worth the read. We are all familiar with the exploits of the Japanese suicide pilots, dubbed...

Now, I don’t mean a culture that existed before writing, or one that was isolated from other literate cultures so that there was no one...

The mighty Mongols failed to invade Japan, twice. It sounds more bad-ass when you realize that in both cases, a freak storm was...

Some Talking points to your history buff freinds. Origin of the word ‘All roads lead to Rome‘- During the glory days of the Roman Empire,...

A group of American soldiers, German soldiers, and French POWs all banded together to fight off an SS Panzer unit near the end of WWII....

In 15th century the Chinese ship wrecked near the Kenyan town of Lamu. It’s believed that the occupants managed to swim ashore and...

Pretty much every single American knows about Pearl Harbor. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, killing thousands of people, and launching...

In 1947, a single fire caused over $100 million’s worth of damage — equivalent to over $1.1 billion in today’s money. The Grandcamp was a...

Almost. The year was 1887, and Germany was in the colony acquisition business, although the Kaiser and Otto von Bismarck were discovering...

The roots of many of the global political realities of today can be traced back to the events, alliances and outcomes of WW1. I could...

Danes committed murder to be executed. They ment it was a safe way to Heaven. In the 1700s, it was thought that suicide led to hell....

You must have come across people who say they drink to ‘drown their sorrows’. And if you regularly follow news, you must be aware of lot...

The most powerful armies of the 18th century world: Spain, Britain, and France, were beaten by enslaved Africans. These Africans today,...

20. He Had a Crush on a Jew Yes! The guy who wanted to annihilate Jews from the face of the planet actually had a crush on a Jewish girl...