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…
Read MorePeople who cheat death think that they deserve to keep right on living. To die soon after would be just…
Read MoreThe Amityville Horror is a book by American author Jay Anson, published in September 1977. It is also the basis…
Read MoreThe world is pretty awesome. Even in our modern age, it’s full of hidden secrets like entire underground cities, and…
Read MoreThis young Frenchwoman was only 17 when she changed the destiny of the Kingdom of France. She campaigned for her…
Read MoreReligious Cults. Religion has been one of the great guiding forces in human history, along with geography, economics, and the…
Read MoreThey say that “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” But if you take her love away, it gets…
Read MoreThe Black Death, also known as the Pestilence (Pest for short), the Great Plague or the Plague, or less commonly…
Read MoreThe Peasants’ Revolt, also named Wat Tyler’s Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of…
Read MoreWe can safely say that the period of man’s history from 476 AD to 1000 AD was the most maligned…
Read More(recommend audio) The Athenian Revolution (508–507 BCE) was a revolt by the people of Athens that overthrew the ruling aristocratic…
Read MoreThe last soldier surrendered. During World War II around 450,000 German soldiers were imprisoned in 700 camps across the United…
Read MoreFanta for Nazi Germany. It’s February 1944 and Berlin is attempting to recover from American aerial bombing. But life and…
Read MorePeter Stumpp (alternately spelled Stumpf, Stubbe or Stuppe) was a mid-16th century German farmer who was executed on Halloween in…
Read MoreMysterious shipwrecks. We are fascinated by shipwrecks, and it’s easy to see why. First, there’s the idea of sunken treasure,…
Read MoreAncient leaders. To say that some ancient leaders were really weird is probably a bit of an understatement. Being really…
Read MoreTime travel is the one that we want to be real of all mysterious phenomena. The possibilities are endless, and…
Read MoreAtlantis! The name alone is enough to invoke images of mermaids, bubble cities, sunken ruins, and an ancient, technologically advanced…
Read MoreEntire countries embarrassed. These mistakes made entire countries blush. If countries were capable of vasodilation, of course. The truth is,…
Read MoreThere are things about ancient Egypt that still can’t be explained. Few civilizations have a more mysterious reputation than ancient…
Read MoreThe Doomsday Clock. It’s two minutes to midnight. Those words probably make you shiver, just a little bit, because bad…
Read MoreThe city of Danzig was home to a lengthy territorial dispute between the Germans and Poles who inhabited it and…
Read MoreBomber plane captures U-Boat. On August 27, 1941, U-boat U-570, captained by Kapitanleutnant Hans-Joachim Rahmlow, surfaced off the coast of…
Read MoreWW2 German Ace escorts crippled B-17 home. Warfare is not really a place for humanity, ethics and morals, but the…
Read MoreOperation Jericho was an air raid conducted by the RAF with the goal of freeing the captives of the Nazi-held…
Read MoreAbraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy parallels. Abraham Lincoln Predicts His Own Death This story is hotly debated as there…
Read MoreSouth Korean provocations sparked Korean War. History teachers say that the Korean War began due to the North’s unprovoked invasion…
Read MoreThe Six-Day-War. We have previously discussed how the Soviet Union almost invaded Israel during the Six-Day War. We also briefly…
Read MoreThe US Provoked Japan Into War. We have all heard this question a million times: Did the US have advance…
Read MoreHitler feared French admired British. Hitler was no peacenik, but he actually exhibited a very healthy fear of the Anglo-French…
Read MoreThe ancient Romans were prudes. Popular belief says the ancient Romans indulged in all manner of sexual depravities, but they…
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