One of the first photos that was taken inside of Hitler's bunker…
Bathing Machines, at the beach…
How incoming enemy aircraft were detected before the invention of radar…
The United States has a long history of so-called "legal" public executions. The last one was carried out in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1936…
Chinese militia armed with clubs and shields stand ready for battle in 1860 during the Second Opium War against Britain and France…
Baby Cage in the 1930s…
Perhaps one of the most disturbing events in modern history, the Jonestown Massacre was…
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…
After Nguyen Ngoc Loan raised his sidearm and shot Vietcong operative Nguyen Van Lem in the head…
The steamboat Sultana was a Mississippi River paddlewheeler, destroyed in an explosion on 27 April, 1865…
Get the hell ot of my race and give me those numbers…
This is one of the, if not the, oldest known photograph of…
Tesla sitting near his transmitter in Colorado Springs…
On June 30, 1908, an explosion that was equal to more than 2,000 atomic bombs…
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…
Born to a poor family of American sailmakers, James Forten volunteered to join the fight for independence when he was just 14
The exiles and convicts of Tsarists Russia, 1885
According to Roman mythology, the story of these twin brothers tells of the origins of Rome.
The Maharani of Nepal and her ladies-in-waiting, Nepal (1885-1894)
They are a tribe part of Bantu and a very powerful tribe
Egyptians kept many animals as pets
King Henry VI suffered from a ‘sleeping sickness’ that remains mysterious to this day…
Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher, wrote of a great civilization called Atlantis
The capital city, Ottawa, was originally named Bytown…
He named more than 70 cities after himself—and one after his horse
George Washington Never Had Wooden Teeth…
From 1951 to 1992 the U.S. ran almost 1,000 atomic bomb tests in a test site in the Nevada Desert
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.
Children Fought in the US Civil War by the Hundreds of Thousand
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.
The U.S. dropped more ordnance on Korea than in the entire Pacific during WWII
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
"We must stop this brain from working for 20 years…"
The cyclist who saved Jews in wartime Italy
He preferred spending eternity in Hell with his pagan ancestors
Marie Antoinette's last words - "Pardon me, sir. I meant not to do it."