How incoming enemy aircraft were detected before the invention of radar…
One of the first photos that was taken inside of Hitler's bunker…
Chinese militia armed with clubs and shields stand ready for battle in 1860 during the Second Opium War against Britain and France…
Bathing Machines, at the beach…
The United States has a long history of so-called "legal" public executions. The last one was carried out in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1936…
Baby Cage in the 1930s…
The steamboat Sultana was a Mississippi River paddlewheeler, destroyed in an explosion on 27 April, 1865…
Perhaps one of the most disturbing events in modern history, the Jonestown Massacre was…
After Nguyen Ngoc Loan raised his sidearm and shot Vietcong operative Nguyen Van Lem in the head…
It’s known as the most epic and complex mission of World War II. In January, 1945…
This gory plane crash has all the trappings of your worst nightmare, save for the miraculous ending…
Get the hell ot of my race and give me those numbers…
View of the Eiffel Tower from the Jardins des Tuileries, in Paris…
After considerable coaching at the hands of an animal trainer, “Lotus,” a circus hippopotamus…
This is one of the, if not the, oldest known photograph of…
Captain Morgan Actually Existed…
Tesla sitting near his transmitter in Colorado Springs…
On June 30, 1908, an explosion that was equal to more than 2,000 atomic bombs…
Egyptians kept many animals as pets
The exiles and convicts of Tsarists Russia, 1885
They are a tribe part of Bantu and a very powerful tribe
The Maharani of Nepal and her ladies-in-waiting, Nepal (1885-1894)
Born to a poor family of American sailmakers, James Forten volunteered to join the fight for independence when he was just 14.
According to Roman mythology, the story of these twin brothers tells of the origins of Rome.
From 1951 to 1992 the U.S. ran almost 1,000 atomic bomb tests in a test site in the Nevada Desert
George Washington Never Had Wooden Teeth…
He named more than 70 cities after himself—and one after his horse
King Henry VI suffered from a ‘sleeping sickness’ that remains mysterious to this day…
The capital city, Ottawa, was originally named Bytown…
Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher, wrote of a great civilization called Atlantis
Children Fought in the US Civil War by the Hundreds of Thousand
Very few Roman hours lasted an hour
The U.S. dropped more ordnance on Korea than in the entire Pacific during WWII
The Duke of Wellington sent some of his best soldiers to defend Canada in 1814
A Railway from Sea to Sea - British Columbia joined Canada in 1871 after Ottawa promised to build a railway to the West Coast.
History tells us that Napoleon’s most upsetting defeat came at Waterloo. Or it may have occurred eight years earlier, after the French emperor was attacked by a relentless horde of rabbits.