At one point during WWII, the only thing standing between the Nazi’s and nuclear weaponry was heavy water, an element they needed to facilitate a nuclear explos...
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Last time, on Battles That Made History, we talked about the famous Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg was the most important battle of t...
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In case anyone needed more proof that history isn't just a boring list of dates and names, one story has us in stitches: Mexican general ...
Let’s get this out right away. This is not history for the faint of heart. If you are sensitive to stories, which include harm to animals, you should read this ...
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In December of 1914, bitter battles were fought in the trenches along the western front of World War I. The trenches were a horrific pl...
It was a cold day in Long Island that January 1939 when William “Willy” Patrick Hitler immigrated with his Irish mother to the United States. William Randolph H...
On January 16th, 2014, as Hiroo Onoda exhaled his last breath, his battle with pneumonia ended with a heart attack. After 91 years he’d fought many battles. Wha...
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...
