Women secured the right to vote in the United Kingdom is 1918 after an activist movement overcame popular and political opposition. Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, the occupant of Number 10 from 1908 to 1916, was a...

On August 10, 1945, after deciding that two atomic bombs was enough, the Japanese government, using rather obtuse language, indicated a willingness to surrender. On August 14, Japan formally expressed this sentiment to t...

Herbert Hoover was a highly accomplished mining engineer, businessman, and humanitarian before he had the bad luck to be inaugurated as President of the United States shortly before the outbreak of the Great Depression....

World War II ended with the aircraft carrier as th...  ...st optimize this platform.A 2021 article in Naval History magazine explains that among the challenges of th...

Historian James Thomas Flexner famously called George Washington "the indispensible man" of the American Revolution. As Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, General Washington refused to profit from the war, accep...

A 2020 article in the magazine Naval History describes "Frankenships" -- ships that, like Fran...

As we have noted in the past, President John Tyler (1790-1862) left the White House in 1845. He had many children, the last of which, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, was born in 1853 when former President Tyler was 63 years old. Ly...

The Bishop of Rome had significant temporal power from at least Pope Miltiades, a trend that generally accelerated (with interruptions, Byzantine and otherwise) until the papal domains assembled its own navy to combat Mu...

The American aircraft carrier Yorktown (CV-5, as distinguished from CV-10, which is now a museum ship) fought the Japanese at Coral Sea and Midway. It was in the latter engagement that she sank to the Pacific Ocean floor...

Weird Universe tells us that in 1932, the Lincoln Electric Company (which is apparently still in business) conducted a national essay writing competition about arc welding. The winners received a total of $17,500 in priz...