Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara was stationed in Lithuania when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Thousands of Jewish refugees came to the consulate seeking travel documents in order to escape the Nazis. Sugihara's super...

(YouTube link) Fifty-two years ago today (November 3, 1957), Sputnik 2 launched from the Soviet Union with a dog named Laika {wiki} on board. It was a tremendous political coup for the USSR to launch a living being in...

Every once in a while, someone will say, "I wi...  ...rce will be useful to help my children with their history lessons! http://www.onlinedegree.net/101-historic...

A trip through the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago will make you glad you live in the modern world instead of the "good old days"! Wired has a gallery of exhibit photos ranging from a skull that belon...

I went to China and took an electrical adapter wit...  ...s got which socket is to brush up on your WW1/WW2 history , and to have a deep passion for postcolonial lite...

Daylight Saving Time ends in most of the United States a 2AM on Sunday, November 1st (Hawaii and Arizona have been on standard time all summer). We remember which way to set our clocks by thinking "spring forward, fall b...

Newsweek presents a pictorial history of birth control methods. We've come a long way s...

On October 26th, 1977, a hospital cook in Somalia named Ali Maow Maalin was diagnosed with smallpox. What makes this so remarkable is that no naturally-occurring cases of smallpox have been diagnosed in the 32 years sinc...

This week marks the 47th anniversary of The Cuban Missile Crisis, an event that spanned thirteen days and brought the world close to total nuclear war.  It was also a valuable lesson in Presidential powers, and global n...

Back in 1st century A.D. (or C.E., if it pleases y...  ...n Nero's guests.  Jackie118 has more fascinating history of Nero's Rome at the link! http://socyberty.c...  ...Nero's Rome at the link! http://socyberty.com/ history /roman-romps-and-rotations/ | Image: Daily Mail