History

Perhaps one that the world didn’t quite expect to see was the application of Uranium in children’s toys until one man did it.

When the United States entered World War II, instead of rolls of toilet paper, the crisis was with meat.

In what was deemed the golden age of aircraft design, there was an impressive proposal, the XF-108 Rapier.

There were weird tanks made in the past, and then there’s Kugelpanzer. An enigma that no one had quite figured out yet what the whole thing was really for.

When Germany’s Messerschmitt, the leading aircraft manufacturer during World War II, was banned from producing planes for ten years, they overcame the business circumstances by creating microcars.

What was there left to do for a group of men stuck in the middle of the Pacific waters, with no fuel, no means of communication, with limited food for the 27 of them?

The small, compact, yet powerful enough M50 Ontos was light enough to be airdropped, just like what they were seeking, but why was it still removed from service in 1969?

About 222 students and 18 teachers from women’s schools were deployed into a nursing unit to help the wounded Imperial Japanese Army.

During World War I, No Man’s Land was one of the places you wouldn’t want to be in. Just as the soldiers thought they already had more than enough to worry about, they would find out that even the seemingly innocent, harmless, and war-beaten trees could also kill them.

To the Soviets during the siege of Leningrad, performing an orchestra sounded like an attractive idea, so that’s what they did.

They say that the true defining factor of an excellent commander is not in the offense when soldiers are mostly prepared but during the retreat when most of the troops are in poor shape, desperate, and low in morale, and the odds are not in your favor.

The US discovered that the cause of the mines’ explosions was not enemy ships. As it turned out, the culprit was located some 93 million miles away: the sun.