They Thought They Were Lucky When They Cheated Death
People who cheat death think that they deserve to keep right on living. To die soon after would be just…
People who cheat death think that they deserve to keep right on living. To die soon after would be just…
The Amityville Horror is a book by American author Jay Anson, published in September 1977. It is also the basis…
The world is pretty awesome. Even in our modern age, it’s full of hidden secrets like entire underground cities, and…
This young Frenchwoman was only 17 when she changed the destiny of the Kingdom of France. She campaigned for her…
Religious Cults. Religion has been one of the great guiding forces in human history, along with geography, economics, and the…
They say that “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” But if you take her love away, it gets…
The Black Death, also known as the Pestilence (Pest for short), the Great Plague or the Plague, or less commonly…
The Peasants’ Revolt, also named Wat Tyler’s Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of…
We can safely say that the period of man’s history from 476 AD to 1000 AD was the most maligned…
(recommend audio) The Athenian Revolution (508–507 BCE) was a revolt by the people of Athens that overthrew the ruling aristocratic…
The last soldier surrendered. During World War II around 450,000 German soldiers were imprisoned in 700 camps across the United…
Fanta for Nazi Germany. It’s February 1944 and Berlin is attempting to recover from American aerial bombing. But life and…
Peter Stumpp (alternately spelled Stumpf, Stubbe or Stuppe) was a mid-16th century German farmer who was executed on Halloween in…
Mysterious shipwrecks. We are fascinated by shipwrecks, and it’s easy to see why. First, there’s the idea of sunken treasure,…
Ancient leaders. To say that some ancient leaders were really weird is probably a bit of an understatement. Being really…
Time travel is the one that we want to be real of all mysterious phenomena. The possibilities are endless, and…
Atlantis! The name alone is enough to invoke images of mermaids, bubble cities, sunken ruins, and an ancient, technologically advanced…
Entire countries embarrassed. These mistakes made entire countries blush. If countries were capable of vasodilation, of course. The truth is,…
There are things about ancient Egypt that still can’t be explained. Few civilizations have a more mysterious reputation than ancient…
The Doomsday Clock. It’s two minutes to midnight. Those words probably make you shiver, just a little bit, because bad…
The city of Danzig was home to a lengthy territorial dispute between the Germans and Poles who inhabited it and…
Bomber plane captures U-Boat. On August 27, 1941, U-boat U-570, captained by Kapitanleutnant Hans-Joachim Rahmlow, surfaced off the coast of…
WW2 German Ace escorts crippled B-17 home. Warfare is not really a place for humanity, ethics and morals, but the…
Operation Jericho was an air raid conducted by the RAF with the goal of freeing the captives of the Nazi-held…
Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy parallels. Abraham Lincoln Predicts His Own Death This story is hotly debated as there…
South Korean provocations sparked Korean War. History teachers say that the Korean War began due to the North’s unprovoked invasion…
The Six-Day-War. We have previously discussed how the Soviet Union almost invaded Israel during the Six-Day War. We also briefly…
The US Provoked Japan Into War. We have all heard this question a million times: Did the US have advance…
Hitler feared French admired British. Hitler was no peacenik, but he actually exhibited a very healthy fear of the Anglo-French…
The ancient Romans were prudes. Popular belief says the ancient Romans indulged in all manner of sexual depravities, but they…