How A Dog Saved Darwin From Bombing
Throughout history, animals have held significant roles in wars and conflicts. Cavalry horses were deployed to charge the enemy, pigeons con...
Throughout history, animals have held significant roles in wars and conflicts. Cavalry horses were deployed to charge the enemy, pigeons con...
If there was anyone on board the Titanic that truly deserved the title “unsinkable” it was a coal stoker named Arthur John Priest, who surv...
No one who has been touched by war has emerged from the experience unchanged. In the case of Adrian Carton de Wiart, who had participated in...
For a brief two years during the 1890s, there was a rail service between Gravesend and Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. The railway was u...
In 1903, a famous social activist named Ganga Ram established a unique mode of transport in his village in Faisalabad, Pakistan. It was a tr...
Nearly five decades after the sinking of the Titanic , another tragedy struck in the oceans. A Danish liner was on her maiden voyage off the...
Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Rankin gently pulled back the stick of his F-8 Crusader to put the single-engine supersonic fighter jet on ...
In his novel Moby Dick , Herman Melville recounts numerous cases of cetaceans turning against whalers who were hunting them, attacking their...
If you've had the chance to explore your old family photo albums, you may have stumbled upon pictures of your ancestors who were born du...
Straddling the river of Aurach in the German state of Bavaria lies the small town of Herzogenaurach. It was here in the late 1940s, the Dass...
During World War II, one of the most significant logistical challenges faced by the Allied forces during their invasion of Europe was ensuri...
The Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan is one of the busiest and the most important spaceport on earth with over a thousand satellit...
In 1924, Germany was rocked by a sensational case of multiple homicide. Fritz Heinrich Angerstein, a resident of Limberg, Germany, had bruta...
During the Second World War, the United States initiated a massive movement of aircrafts and ground troops across the Atlantic and into the ...
In 1925, when British archeologist Leonard Woolley and his team were excavating at Ur, in the modern-day Dhi Qar Governorate of Iraq, they d...
In The Knave of Harts , a collection of satirical poems penned by Samuel Rowlands, the English poet makes an allusion to a certain German ca...
In the small island of Oknö near MönsterÃ¥s, Sweden, a young girl named Karolina Olsson went to bed complaining of a toothache. She wouldn’t ...
Throughout the annals of history there have been individuals who have sought to deceive others by producing counterfeit versions of precious...
On the coast of northeast England, lies the town of Hartlepool, and from this large town in County Durham comes a humorous legend about a mo...
Arthur Upfield is one Australia's most underrated writers. His literary contributions often remain overshadowed by the brilliance of his...