History

When the Holy See’s embassy refused to turn over Noriega, the army resorted to relentlessly blasting the embassy… with rock-and-roll music.

Although they say that nobody really wins in a war, there were some battles in history that could be considered, depending on which perspective you’re looking, great military victories or huge military disasters.

Perhaps of all the jesters that have ever lived, it was Triboulet who was the most dedicated about his job that his joke almost got him killed.

How many shots of beer would it take before you accept a bet that you can fly a plane back and forth in 15 minutes, ideally, while saying, “Hold my beer”?

Once in his life, Jimmy Carter was lowered down into a nuclear reactor that made his urine radioactive for six months.

There’s no better feeling than being victorious after a long struggle of, say, battling. Not unless, of course, it’s a pyrrhic kind of victory.

While most of the involved in assassinations during the Cold War were spies, huge businessmen, or politicians, one man who was neither of those was assassinated in a peculiar way.

The opportunity for Cuba to create many rich people came during WWI, with one basic commodity that was abundant in their country.

Although unconventional as it may sound, the Israelis’ methods were deemed effective and helped them fully gain their independence, even at one time, they had to use seltzer bottles.

If you want to know some cool and innovative projects that almost sound fictitious, check out DARPA’s projects.

Sometimes, a search-and-destroy approach is not the best course of action when you want to defeat your enemies.

One of the not-so-famous weapons of World War I was the trench club. For what it’s worth, it’s pretty amazing, too.