Baby Cage in the 1930s…
One of the first photos that was taken inside of Hitler's bunker…
How incoming enemy aircraft were detected before the invention of radar…
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…
Perhaps one of the most disturbing events in modern history, the Jonestown Massacre was…
Get the hell ot of my race and give me those numbers…
This gory plane crash has all the trappings of your worst nightmare, save for the miraculous ending…
It’s known as the most epic and complex mission of World War II. In January, 1945…
The steamboat Sultana was a Mississippi River paddlewheeler, destroyed in an explosion on 27 April, 1865…
After Nguyen Ngoc Loan raised his sidearm and shot Vietcong operative Nguyen Van Lem in the head…
Captain Morgan Actually Existed…
After considerable coaching at the hands of an animal trainer, “Lotus,” a circus hippopotamus…
View of the Eiffel Tower from the Jardins des Tuileries, in Paris…
Tesla sitting near his transmitter in Colorado Springs…
On June 30, 1908, an explosion that was equal to more than 2,000 atomic bombs…
This is one of the, if not the, oldest known photograph of…
The exiles and convicts of Tsarists Russia, 1885
According to Roman mythology, the story of these twin brothers tells of the origins of Rome.
Born to a poor family of American sailmakers, James Forten volunteered to join the fight for independence when he was just 14
They are a tribe part of Bantu and a very powerful tribe
Egyptians kept many animals as pets
The Maharani of Nepal and her ladies-in-waiting, Nepal (1885-1894)
From 1951 to 1992 the U.S. ran almost 1,000 atomic bomb tests in a test site in the Nevada Desert
The capital city, Ottawa, was originally named Bytown…
George Washington Never Had Wooden Teeth…
Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher, wrote of a great civilization called Atlantis
King Henry VI suffered from a ‘sleeping sickness’ that remains mysterious to this day…
He named more than 70 cities after himself—and one after his horse
A Railway from Sea to Sea - British Columbia joined Canada in 1871 after Ottawa promised to build a railway to the West Coast.
The Duke of Wellington sent some of his best soldiers to defend Canada in 1814
Children Fought in the US Civil War by the Hundreds of Thousand
The U.S. dropped more ordnance on Korea than in the entire Pacific during WWII
Very few Roman hours lasted an hour
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.
He preferred spending eternity in Hell with his pagan ancestors
Marie Antoinette's last words - "Pardon me, sir. I meant not to do it."
"We must stop this brain from working for 20 years…"
The cyclist who saved Jews in wartime Italy
This bizarre and tragic bit of nuclear history happened 59 years ago today
The former U.S. vice president Johnson County is named after held slaves, married and fathered children with enslaved woman