Udayamohan VasantharasanSep 26, 20201 minNew Amsterdam to New YorkDid 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...
Udayamohan VasantharasanSep 16, 20201 minYou took everything awayYou have stolen 30 years of an innocent persons life in the guise of stopping him rising to greatness and prosperity. He couls have...
Udayamohan VasantharasanSep 11, 20202 minHilariety ensues during Spanish-American warDuring the Spanish-American war, an American ship fired cannons at a Spanish owned island. None of the cannonballs did any damage. The...
Udayamohan VasantharasanAug 16, 20201 minSparrows! Enemy #1In 1958, Mao Zedong made sparrows enemy #1 and ordered all sparrows to be killed because he felt they ate too much grain and hindered...
Udayamohan VasantharasanAug 4, 20203 minThe idea of PilsudskiThe Miedzymorze, or called Intermarium in Latin, which mean “across the seas”, was first proposed by Polish hero Jozef Pilsudski, the man...
Udayamohan VasantharasanAug 3, 20201 min712,882,560That’s the number of possible code settings in the Wehrmacht version of Enigma that really mattered. And the code settings were set for...
Udayamohan VasantharasanAug 3, 20209 minTHE GERMAN KAMIKAZESThis 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...
Udayamohan VasantharasanAug 2, 20202 minThe World Once Forgot About A CivilizationNow, 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...
Udayamohan VasantharasanAug 1, 20202 minFailed invasion of Japan by MongolsThe mighty Mongols failed to invade Japan, twice. It sounds more bad-ass when you realize that in both cases, a freak storm was...
Udayamohan VasantharasanAug 1, 20202 minBite’s for the CollosiumSome Talking points to your history buff freinds. Origin of the word ‘All roads lead to Rome‘- During the glory days of the Roman Empire,...
Udayamohan VasantharasanJul 31, 20204 minWhen Enemy’s banded togeather.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....
Udayamohan VasantharasanJul 31, 20201 minChinese descendants in KenyaIn 15th century the Chinese ship wrecked near the Kenyan town of Lamu. It’s believed that the occupants managed to swim ashore and...
Udayamohan VasantharasanJul 30, 20202 minJapanese occupation of AlaskaPretty much every single American knows about Pearl Harbor. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, killing thousands of people, and launching...
Udayamohan VasantharasanJul 30, 20203 minSingle Fire – $100 million’s worth of damageIn 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...
Udayamohan VasantharasanJul 29, 20205 minThat time Germany declared war on Hawaii.Almost. The year was 1887, and Germany was in the colony acquisition business, although the Kaiser and Otto von Bismarck were discovering...
Udayamohan VasantharasanJul 29, 20202 minEscape of SMS GoebenThe roots of many of the global political realities of today can be traced back to the events, alliances and outcomes of WW1. I could...
Udayamohan VasantharasanJul 28, 20205 minDanes. Murder. Executed.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....
Udayamohan VasantharasanJul 28, 20203 minDrown your sorrowsYou 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...
Udayamohan VasantharasanJul 27, 20203 minThe HaitiansThe most powerful armies of the 18th century world: Spain, Britain, and France, were beaten by enslaved Africans. These Africans today,...
Udayamohan VasantharasanJul 26, 20208 minStrange fact’s about Hitler20. 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...