July 4 is the 185th day on the Georgian calendar, unless it’s a leap year,…
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A patriarchal world hasn’t been enough to stop women from rising to positions of power…
World War Two was fought on a colossal scale. Battles could last for months and…
When Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, his charismatic henchman Leon Trotsky seemed to be his…
World War II was a tragedy filled mass conflict with numerous strategic mistakes, violations of…
Other than Ramses, whom most people know from the Book of Exodus, King Tutankhamun is…
September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th if it’s a leap year)…
The world is full of “what ifs?” What if JFK hadn’t decided to go cruising…
With the almost insane amount of pictures taken on a daily basis around the world…
The historical development of civilization cannot be understood without also understanding the history of bloodshed.…
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue… The elementary school lyrics were the first exposure…
The Red Scare of the 1950s. The Japanese invasion panic of WWII. Fears of ISIS…
When most people are asked to name the most brutal and murderous leaders in history,…
We were all taught things in school—or, at very least, in the schoolyard—that we accepted…
We don’t think we’re really breaking new ground when we say that the Nazis weren’t…
Up until the time of Christopher Columbus, the world was divided in two, both geographically…
Usually it falls to powerful monarchs, brilliant generals, and influential world leaders to dictate the…