The C-47 Skytrain featured intelligent design features that made it an integral part of World War II’s Allied military ...

These 12 infamous leaders from the 6th century BC to the 20th century AD are among the most impactful in history and shaped ...

If captured and given a choice of life or death, most chose life as double agents. The quest to obtain information led all to ...

Sultan Mehmed III intentionally had his 19 brothers executed as his very first official act after taking over Ottoman ...

Wartime transportation has always existed, as war consumes supplies as well as lives. However, transportation expanded during ...

Tossing Iguanas and riding tortoises, Darwin’s expedition to the Galápagos seemed childishly irresponsible at times, but it ...

Life in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century was unstable. With wars, economic crises, and a pandemic, it was hard not to feel that humanity was facing one “existential crisis” after ...

In 218 BC, war broke out between Rome and Carthage, the two largest powers in the Western Mediterranean. What Rome expected to be a quick and easy war turned out to be a long, bitter, and costly ...

The Crimean Peninsula is a large landmass of 10,400 square miles that juts out into the Black Sea from its northern coastline. Directly to its north are territories that are disputed between Russia ...

In 1967, a medical first stunned the world and brought international attention to Christiaan Barnard, a young doctor from Cape Town.

In an unlikely turn of events, legendary dancer Josephine Baker became a spy for the French Resistance during World War II.

The classifications of languages are often simplified descriptions that omit vital parts of a language’s history. As such, the general description of English as being simply a Germanic language with ...