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...

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...

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...

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...

What do you picture when you think catapult? Probably something like this. Well, if you did, you’d be wrong. Not only is thing not even a...

This happened in Ancient Greece, in early to mid 300 BC, there lived a courtesan named Phryne. Also her name wasn’t actually Phryne, it...