(The Fall of the Alamo by Robert James Onderdonk)180 years ago last Thursday, the representatives of the people of Texas voted to declare independence from Mexico. During that time, approximately 200 men stood in the old...

(Photo: Library and Archives Canada)Sir Winston Churchill, the Man of the Century, saw the dangers of Nazism before almost anyone else in the free world did. Then, after having defeated that threat and been promptly toss...

(Photoof a priest hole by Quodvultdeus)When she became Queen of England in 1558, Elizabeth I ramped up the suppression of Catholicism in her country. This did not deter many Catholics from adhering to their faith private...

(Image: Victoria and Albert Museum)It's Istanbul in the Seventeenth Century. You, a nobleman of refined peerage and accomplishment, have been invited to visit the Sultan in the Topkapi Palace. As the Grand Vizier of the...

(Photo: Jeremybrooks)It's not a water slide or a snow slide, unfortunately. The Devil's Slide is an unusual rock formation east of Ogden, Utah. The limestone ridges are 12 meters high, 4.5 meters apart, and a very long 2...

(Image: Priceonomics)During World War II, almost all able-bodied young men entered military service, either as volunteers or draftees.So who played professional football?That became a serious problem for two teams in par...

(Image: National Maritime Museum)Your task is to invade England from across the English Channel. This has been done twice successfully, many times unsuccessfully, and countless times in the dreams of military planners. T...

Hermann Goering (left) was a devoted Nazi, an early supporter of Adolf Hitler, and eventually the senior commander of the Luftwaffe, Nazi Germany’s air force. He was a war criminal of the highest order and well on...

(Photo: Ogiyoshisan)Some people call Lake Yamanaka “Swan Lake.” This beautiful lake within sight of Mount Fuji in Japan is the home of many birds highly sought by birdwatchers, especially whooping swans. City...

(Photo: Northwest Territories Geological Survey)This is what Peel Plateau Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada looks like now.(Photo: Scott Zolkos/University of Alberta/National Post)It used to look like this. But...