Celtic history is steeped in mystery. You’ve no doubt heard of the Celts, but because…
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We all love history and here are a host of history lists to prove it. Get your history knowledge in the form of top 10 lists, it is easier on the stomach.
The 19th century had its fair share of wars that had high body counts. This includes…
As World War II was coming to an end, American Naval forces were quickly approaching…
The main purpose for studying history is not to see who ruled over what lands…
At some point, slightly over a millennia ago, the entire civilized world decided to collectively…
Picture a samurai. No doubt you’ve got in your mind the iconic warrior with the…
Ancient Egypt is one of the most fascinating places in the historical record. Their obsession…
For nearly one thousand years, the world quaked at their footsteps, and the very sound…
Piracy is as old as the sea itself … or at least since there’s been…
In war, when the chips are down and the odds are against a military unit,…
The Knights Templar, a.k.a. the bad guys from the original Assassin’s Creed that you take…
Samurai are one of the most revered and respected warriors in history. We’ve talked a…
What really sets Game of Thrones, or A Song of Ice and Fire (the actual…
Guest Author: Andrew Grossman Many tragedies throughout history have been justified by the excuse “I…
The Immortals were the heavy infantry unit of the Achaemenid Empire’s army. Also known as…
The Maori people of New Zealand came from eastern Polynesia in waves of canoes sometime…
Every kid who ever took a history class has sat there, looking at the images…
As TopTenz has covered in other articles, the past was in some ways so much…
The Aztec Empire started sometime around the mid-1350s in what is now Mexico. It was…
Ancient Egypt has long been a fascinating subject not only to historians, but to average…
Some 80,000 years ago, our planet began to cool, heralding the dawn of the last…
They’re the guys with the thousand yard stare. The one with six-shooters in their holsters,…
Throughout history, a nation or empire is only as strong as its military forces. Growth…
As Mark Twain famously put it, “Truth is stranger than fiction.” And so it is with…