Category: History

Had someone ever pissed you off so much that you just wanted to throw him out of the window? You’re not the first because apparently, it was a common thing in Prague before, called defenestration.

Let’s have a look at some of the legendary ships that the US had throughout history.

With the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine, nuclear arsenals of the world have been widely compared in the case that Russia would launch such an attack. Have a look at the world’s nuclear arsenal here.

Oleg Matveychev, a member of the Russian Parliament, called for the United States to return Alaska and a settlement in California on Russian state television. The lawmaker outlined a series of demands for the United States and Ukraine “after Ukraine’s demilitarization is completed.” This included additional reparations to cover the economic damage to Russia brought […]

The US Marine Corps has witnessed a lot of legends since they were founded on November 10, 1775. Here are some of our Leatherneck heroes:

During the Civil War, a muzzle-loaded, single-shot rifle was what the Confederates depended on to shoot down Union officers and more.

The US government, in February 1945, was facing yet another huge problem apart from the ongoing war— millions of pieces of undelivered letters and packages.

Whether it was to keep their dirty secrets buried and away from the public or simply because they were not pleased with their servant anymore, these leaders just succeeded in removing them as if they never existed in the first place.

The city of Konstanz in Germany survived the bombings barely scathed by deceiving the Allied bombers, and they didn’t do some sort of complicated form of trickery.

Some tactics in the history of warfare were more brutal than the others, taking the concept of war to a whole new different level. While we are not here to question whether these techniques were too much or not, they were no doubt all-out devastating.

Today, the US relies almost entirely on million-dollar Lockheed Martin tractor-trailers to transport nuclear weapons, but during the Cold war, they depended on the so-called “white trains.”

King Edward I of England was not called the Hammer of the Scots for nothing. He created a weapon so terrifying the Scots had no choice but to surrender.