History

Abraham Lincoln once said: “9 out of 10 quotes are misattributed”. We believe his words have never been truer.

The Second World War was the largest armed conflict in modern history, with more than 100 million military personnel being mobilized. During the war, the

Christopher Columbus is famous as the man who discovered the New World, better known today as North America. While it’s been established that some of the things you were taught in elementary school about the man were exaggerated a bit, there remain numerous details about the man and his life that you probably never realized were altered, skewed, or altogether fabricated. We suppose the best lesson

Over the years, experts have discovered numerous artifacts that date back to the distant past but, unfortunately, they are still not able to determine exactly when and where they originate from, nor what precisely they were used for. Taking into account that those artifacts are thousands of years old, what's even more puzzling is their shape and materials they are made of as well as the fact that

Monuments exist as a testament to the greatness/significance of whatever event or person they are commemorating. Because while human memory might fail and books

As each year winds down we look forward to the next with anticipation. To celebrate 2016, let's take a look at these historic January 1sts (in no particular order).

Many strange and unexplained events have been documented in modern history, events that raise important questions and baffle world populations. These events

It’s one of the better documented parts of European history, yet much of what we know about the Middle Ages isn’t true at all.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, or so the old cliché goes, and war is the most desperate time of all. But if you're too desperate you end up with weapons that simply don't work. Here are only ten such examples.

The concept of bail bonds is deeply rooted in the justice system, acting as a guarantee that an accused person...