Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was the eighth President of the United States (1837–1841) and his administration was largely characterized… Read More
To minimize any foreseeable delay in launching a nuclear missile during the height of the Cold War, the US military… Read More
A study by a University of Oxford academic reveals that in the Elizabethan theatre children were forced to work in theatres… Read More
During the World War II and Nazis' plan to eradicate all Jews from Europe, Danes saved almost all of the Danish… Read More
Although Europe and most Western countries no longer consider attempted suicide as a criminal offense, it used to be a… Read More
The Holodomor, also known as the "Terror-Famine in Ukraine" and "Famine-Genocide in Ukraine", was a man-made catastrophic famine in the Ukrainian SSR and adjacent Cossack territories in 1932… Read More
After the shooting of President James A. Garfield by Charles J. Guiteau in Washington in 1881, one bullet remained lodged in his body, but… Read More
An extremely strange historical coincidence is that Abraham Lincoln was shot in April 14, 1865, just after he had created the Secret… Read More
Before Mona Lisa was put on the walls of the Louvre Museum for public display, it had been hosted in… Read More
Between 1971 and 1972 Germany lifted the restriction on haircuts for soldiers and as photos of that period show, soldiers… Read More
