History

During WWII, to boost the morale of the soldiers, soldier shows were authorized. Thus the beginning of GIs dressing up as drag queens.

While most of the treaties were reasonable, well planned, and logical, there were some that involved unlikely and unusual objects that would make you scratch your head.

For the radiomen on the Vietnam War, the odds were even more against them that their life expectancy in the field was five seconds.

Sometimes, strategizing involves bluffing the enemies and tricking them into thinking that they already knew your next move, only to find out later that you played them. The next thing they knew, they were on the losing side.

Ah, yes, that good 17th-century ole tradition of glamorous, rogue, easily profitable but dangerous seafaring robbery.

In the past, it was but a lawless open world where anything and everything was possible. The result was some of the most unconventional, astonishing, and sometimes hard-to-believe combat techniques.

Here are some historical events that were said to be predicted to happen by prophets of their time.

The Bethke brothers who, for several years apart on three occasions, fled and crossed that iron curtain. They were Ingo, Holger, and Egbert.

James Forrestal knew the wonders that ice cream could do in cheering someone up, so he made sure that the sailors would not be without ice cream.

No one wanted to be in the Auschwitz camp, except maybe prisoner number 4859 who volunteered himself to be locked up in that infamous camp.

At work, there’s this accidentally-sent-an-email-without-the-attachment kind of mistake, and then there’s this I-almost-blew-up-the-President-of-the-United-States mistake.

A girl named Maria Zaharia, 12 at that time, died helping the Romanian Army just before the Battle of Mărășești.