Category: History

The US Army had been naming its helicopters after Native American tribes for decades now and for good reasons.

In the military, belts are essential not just for aesthetics but also for functional purposes, so are the buckles that have evolved through time.

As ridiculous as it might sound, a small detail like socks could dictate the fate of the soldiers in a war.

Tunnel rats performed underground search and destroy missions during the Vietnam War. A word of warning: The job was not for the faint of heart.

During WWI, soldiers suffering from PTSD that was called “Shell Shock” at that time were hugely misunderstood.

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.