Imagine a tree, 3500 years old, and the history and knowledge it must possess. The Senator is a s...

In the beginning, the German U-boats were hardly a threat to the world's largest naval powers. Even after the U-l's dreadful collision during its first test during a training exercise, the German engineers stayed hopeful...

The sad truth about witches is that you don't have...  ...xecuted for witchcraft. Read about eight women in history who each paid the price for what others thought s...

The following is an article from Uncle John’s All-Purpose Extra Strength Bathroom Reader. We take it for granted today, but less than 100 years ago, the supermarket seemed like some sort of bizarre fantasy. Wait a min...

You may have heard of the Japanese holdouts -- sol...  ...ho were the last to surrender throughout military history . Attun Paladin, sometimes referred to as Teruo N...

What, did you think face-stretching and skin-pierc...  ...l binding has been practiced at various points in history in widespread parts of the world, with some evide...  ...ient bodymod that goes back further than recorded history . Some scholars believe it began in eastern Africa...

Adolek Kohn's dance at Auschwitz was a powerful and joyful statement, but it wasn't the first of its kind. Groucho Marx visited his mother's home town of Dornum, Germany in 1958. He found that the Nazis had destroyed Jew...

A military fort, out in the ocean, with a moat! Fort Jefferson is a part of Dry Tortugas National Park in the waters off of Key West, Florida. Construction on the "fort in the middle of nowhere" was started in 1846. It w...

Nestled in a chest of drawers existed a list of names of those lives that succumb to the Blood Countess, Elizabeth Bathory. For years, Bathory's sadistic killing spree went unnoticed as she left a trail of blood from Cac...

Blonde Bombshells (image source: Psywar.org) The Plan: During WWII, Axis powers attempted to wage psychological warfare against the Allies in a highly unusual way. They'd fly over enemy camps and drop pictures of...