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…
Chinese militia armed with clubs and shields stand ready for battle in 1860 during the Second Opium War against Britain and France…
One of the first photos that was taken inside of Hitler's bunker…
Baby Cage in the 1930s…
How incoming enemy aircraft were detected before the invention of radar…
This gory plane crash has all the trappings of your worst nightmare, save for the miraculous ending…
After Nguyen Ngoc Loan raised his sidearm and shot Vietcong operative Nguyen Van Lem in the head…
Perhaps one of the most disturbing events in modern history, the Jonestown Massacre was…
It’s known as the most epic and complex mission of World War II. In January, 1945…
Get the hell ot of my race and give me those numbers…
The steamboat Sultana was a Mississippi River paddlewheeler, destroyed in an explosion on 27 April, 1865…
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…
View of the Eiffel Tower from the Jardins des Tuileries, in Paris…
This is one of the, if not the, oldest known photograph of…
After considerable coaching at the hands of an animal trainer, “Lotus,” a circus hippopotamus…
Born to a poor family of American sailmakers, James Forten volunteered to join the fight for independence when he was just 14
Egyptians kept many animals as pets
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
The exiles and convicts of Tsarists Russia, 1885
The capital city, Ottawa, was originally named Bytown…
He named more than 70 cities after himself—and one after his horse
Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher, wrote of a great civilization called Atlantis
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…
King Henry VI suffered from a ‘sleeping sickness’ that remains mysterious to this day…
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
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
Very few Roman hours lasted an hour
Children Fought in the US Civil War by the Hundreds of Thousand
He preferred spending eternity in Hell with his pagan ancestors
The cyclist who saved Jews in wartime Italy
Marie Antoinette's last words - "Pardon me, sir. I meant not to do it."
The former U.S. vice president Johnson County is named after held slaves, married and fathered children with enslaved woman
This bizarre and tragic bit of nuclear history happened 59 years ago today
"We must stop this brain from working for 20 years…"
Eisenhower apologizes for racial insult
"to inflict exemplary and severe punishment on the mountain tribes...to strike them with terror...clearing the country of them entirely."
"Now we shall see which of us are good knights!"
"I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more. Do not forget my example"
"So far as I am concerned, if they are hungry let them eat grass or their own dung."
The Gruesome Cannibalism Behind Jameson Whiskey