As one of the most decorated soldiers in WWII, Lieutenant Colonel Matt Louis Urban is the sort of guy they make movies about, but the story almost had a sad end...
"I'm confident that there will be trials for the destruction we've seen in the Middle East, and that the videos and photographs produced by to brag about their...
Dorothea Lynde Dix spent much of her career as an educator and social reformer to working with the mentally ill and creating some of the first mental asylums in...
The only thing worse than a bank heist around $1-billion (USD) is when the person in charge, not of the bank but of the country, commits that theft. Sad, but tr...
In the recent movie, Snowden, about the man by the same name, the head of CIA asks the title character if he ever wonders, “Why there has never been a World War...
The first time humans sunk a ship with a submarine was the US Civil War. It was 1864. Military technology leading up to that time consisted of single-bullet mus...
Stretched over four years, dragged through the trenches of Europe and raked through her skies, World War I left more than just scars on the countryside. It left...
World War II was one of the most devastating events of the 20th century. Affecting almost every part of the world, the war changed the lives of those who were i...
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Nowadays we take the ability to take a photo for granted, considering there are cameras everywhere we look. But there was a time when taking a...
Lafayette, now imprisoned by the Austrians, was kept in Nivelles, now a municipality in Belgium. Along with a few other men and Jean-Xavier Bureau de Pusy, Lafa...
