When Britain entered the Second World War in September 1939, military planners understood that thousands of Allied servicemen would inevitab...
On November 9, 1963, two investigators from France’s Central Office for Counterfeit Currency Control (OCRFM) arrived at the post office on R...
On 18 November 1870, a crowd gathered outside the Surgeons’ Hall in Edinburgh. Inside, seven young women sat for an anatomy examination alon...
In the summer of 1774, a team of British astronomers working under the patronage of the Royal Society established camp at the foot of a lone...
On the borderlands between modern-day Slovakia and Hungary stands one of the strangest waterfalls in Europe. The formation at Šomoška Stone ...
Every spring, just before the arrival of the better-known Qingming Festival, parts of China once observed a strange and austere tradition wh...
In fiction as well as in real life, counterfeiters have always been portrayed as master forgers and artists who reproduced banknotes with as...
In the spring of 1006, people across Asia and Europe looked up into the night sky and saw something astonishing: a brilliant new star blazin...
On 6 December 1917, in the harbour of Halifax, in Nova Scotia, Canada, two ships collided. One of them was a munitions ship loaded with expl...
During the American Civil War, naval warfare underwent rapid transformation. The famous ironclads such as the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia ...
