“Wow, That Escalated Quickly!” Moments in History
Have you ever been in a situation where things are just chill, and the next thing you knew, a minor thing was blown way out of proportion, and things escalated quickly from zero to 100 real fast?
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Have you ever been in a situation where things are just chill, and the next thing you knew, a minor thing was blown way out of proportion, and things escalated quickly from zero to 100 real fast?
Forget Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, or Mao Zedong, history hid BRUTAL female dictators too! Learn about their reigns of terror.
Introduced at the end of WWII, ejection seats are now found in the cockpit of all jet fighters and have saved the lives of thousands.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. The U.S. must prove that it can learn from history.
The vastness of the sea has created many ghost ships. And some, like the U.S. Navy’s L-8, are of the airborne variety.
We’ve all seen double-barrel shotguns, but what about a quad-barrel shotgun? Well, we have one for you today with the Liberator.
For many of us, there is no end to this war. There never will be an end to it. Is there a day that goes by that we don’t think about our war?
Our time in Afghanistan will be marked by profound emotions hard to describe to someone who wasn’t there. In the end, was it all worth it?
The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan forced most modern and technologically advanced armies to reasses their strategies on guerrilla and asymetric warfare.
During the early morning of July 10, 1943, Operation Husky, the largest amphibious landing in military history, was about to take place.
On March 15, 44 BC Julius Caesar was assassinated. His death ushered in a new era for Rome and Western history.
Today is the anniversary of the Boston Massacre one of the major events that led to the American Revolution a few years later.