History

Here are some of the valuable items of WWII that were still yet to be found. Who knows, maybe you could find them.

The Cassius Clay of the 1800s was a prominent politician known for spending his career fighting for abolition.

This was the story of Tojo the monkey and how he ended up in the town of Clonakilty.

Today we remember the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Midway on June 4-6, 1942.  In just a couple of days, this battle changed the course of the war in the Pacific.  The loss of 4 of Japan’s 6 fast fleet carriers crippled the empire’s offensive strike capability as well as their ability to provide […]

Uniforms should protect the wearers from weather, bullets, and the other dangers of war, all without restricting them. Unfortunately, that is not always the case and what’s sadder is that these design mistakes could cost the lives of the soldiers.

A curious and logical barber-surgeon named Ambroise Paré and his scientific approach greatly improved military medicine.

Here are some of those weapons that you wouldn’t want to use unless you wanted to die, as some of them proved to be dangerous not only to the enemies but also to their users.

Slugs are proof that not all heroes wear capes… or have legs.

When the Soviets built an embassy in Washington, the US quickly got up to its feet and devised a plan of literally undermining the embassy that was positioned high above.

Perhaps no one was expecting a gigantic snake ready to bite off a military aircraft like what Colonel Remy Van Lierde, a World War II flying ace, claimed to have seen.

When Japanese pilot Saburō Sakai lost his vision in one eye and half of his body became paralyzed in an encounter, he did not use these to excuse himself from the chaos of war. Instead, he chose to keep fighting as a naval lieutenant.

The CIA once believed that they could weaponize lightning and make it strike as they wished, as suggested by one scientist.