(Photo: Minneapolis Institute of Arts)In the battlefields of Edo Japan, it was necessary for warlords to mark their identity so that their troops would be able to locate them. Elaborate helmets were often the solution to...

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR3FPplcJGg](Video Link)During World War I, British Army officer T.E. Lawrence helped lead an Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. After the war, he wrote about his extraordinary explo...

(Image: Laris Karklis/Washington Post)The Turks and Caicos Islands consist of two clusters of small islands with a total land area of 366 square miles. They were a part of British Jamaica until 1962, when that nation gai...

(Photo: Day Donaldson)The story goes that, 40 years ago, this little island in the Drina River by the town of Bajina Basta, Serbia was a popular spot for young people to swim and sunbathe. The owner and his friends decid...

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgizA_vDlzs](Video Link)It's called the Singing Road. Follow Route 66 west of Tijeras, New Mexico. Slow down to 45 miles per hour and drive over the rumble strip on the side of the road....

(Image: Alexrk2)In 1861, at the outbreak of the Am...  ...as wrong to try to eliminate parts of the state's history ."Our song doesn't belong to the Confederacy. It b...  ...even if they turn out to be on the wrong side of history ."It is what it is, but we learn from history ,...

(Photo: Viaggio Routard)The story goes that in 1807, Giuseppe Bertoleoni, a man from Genoa, was facing bigamy charges. He fled the city with the pair of sisters that he had married and made his way to Tavolara, an uninha...

(Image: Mike Licht)Are you frustrated that you lost an hour today? That's nothing compared to the experience of daylight saving time during World War II. The belligerent nations often thought that adding extra daylight w...

When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Canada leaped to defend the freedom of Europe and declared war. Its citizens raced to enlist in the armed forces to contribute to the effort.Many of them were rejected because they ha...

(Photo: Tina Franklin)In 1903, Mary Franklin of Bi...  ...adhered to the glass. That gave her an idea. The History channel tells the story:Anderson began to sketch...  ...were put to good use. You can read more about the history of their windshield wipers at Jalopnik.