Several photographs that ended up winning the Pulitzer Prize were the result of a peculiar combination of chance and preparedness.
WWII was not a one hundred percent masculine affair. Several women operated in enemy territory, risking their lives to fight the Nazis. Violette Szabo was among them.
At the dawn of the 20th century, the campaign for women’s suffrage grew more extreme in the UK, and suffragettes fought for the vote by mastering an ancient Japanese martial art.
During World War I, the German army had a negative view of the use of tanks, but they had nonetheless realized that something needed to be done against them.
The struggle for Norway in WWII brought unexpected consequences for both sides, the Allies and the Third Reich, but most of all for the architect of the Allied campaign, Winston Churchill.
Aristotle’s name is so synonymous with learning that he has been known simply as ‘the Mind’, ‘the Reader’ and ‘the Philosopher’.
Mengistu Haile Mariam, who liked it the most when people called him Big Brother, replaced Ethiopia’s ancient monarchy with a socialist military government He did everything to remain in power.
Ilona Zrínyi, the Hungarian heroine, is commonly associated more with the role she played in the defense of the castle of Munkács than her private life as a wife and a mother. However, it would be a m...
Irena Sendler acted with the utmost humaneness amid the near-incomprehensible horrors of the Holocaust to save the lives of the persecuted.
Theodore Roosevelt is credited with being the first president to ride in a car.
The first underground tube railway in the world opens in London.
Cars have been with us for almost 150 years, and the boundless ingenuity of mankind has created countless versions of them.
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