Municipal Council Fails to Maintain Tank Honoring 1965 War Hero Abdul Hamid
The Punjab government had placed a 1971 Patton tank in Nehru Park as a “shaheedi samarak” – a memorial – to honor the 1965 Indo-Pak…
Paramount Television Looks to Develop Series Based on Battlefield Video Game
Since movies based on video games don’t tend to do well at the box office, Paramount Television has decided that TV shows based on video…
Austria Attempting to Tear Down House Hitler Was Born In
The Interior Minister of Austria said that he would like to tear down the house where Adolf Hitler was born to prevent it from becoming…
Germany apologises for Herero Genocide
“I believe that the nation as such should be annihilated, or, if this is not possible by tactical measures, expelled from the country. The Herero…
Waking Up To Find A Nuclear Bomb In The Back Yard
In 1958, a nuclear bomb landed in the Gregg yard. It made a crater, killed some poultry, injured some family members (not too seriously), and…
Dive on the wreck of HMS Invincible (Watch)
HMS Invincible was built by Sir WG Armstrong, Whitworth & Company on Tyneside. She was launched on the 13th of April 1907 and had an eventful…
Poland and Russia involved in a spat over the Volyn Massacre
Poland and the Ukraine have enjoyed amicable relations for many years, but one controversy that refuses to go away concerns one of the many horrific…
A Look at Vietnam War Movies
Hollywood always had trouble with the Vietnam War. The conflict divided the nation and had no easy story line for the screen. In 1968, John…
95-year-old War Memorial Destroyed in Car Crash
A memorial in Shortlands, Bromley, South London was destroyed when a Mini hit it after a two-car crash. At 10:20 am on Friday, two cars…
Taking the 1950s Rations Challenge
Becci Sharrock of the Beamish Museum has accepted a challenge to live on the rations that Britons lived with in the 1950s. She’ll spend the…
Efraim Zuroff – Nazi Hunter Extraordinaire
Efraim Zuroff was born in Brooklyn and to this day he exhibits all the tough, streetwise attributes of his native New York and all of…
100 Year Old WW II Female WASP Pilot Meets Lost Love.
How wonderful to be 100 years old and to once more be reunited with your love, even if – as in this case – it…