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Washington-With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Washington was inaugurated as the First President of the United States on April 30, 1789. Henry “Light Horse” Harry Lee famously eulogized George Washington as,…

The Airman Who Fell 18,000 Feet Without A Parachute & Lived

Jay Hemmings

Faced with a terrible choice – that of burning to death, or falling to his death, Alkemade chose the latter option. Aerial combat, like naval…

Forget Tanks: Meet The War Elephants of The 21st Century

Jay Hemmings

AK-47 rifles, RPGs, pistols and revolvers, a few artillery pieces, and some homemade firearms. They also, however, have war elephants. The mention of the phrase…

A Tiger in Africa? The Iconic Tiger I Growling in Full Video Glory

Anything within its sights of 2000 meters was marked as prey. Out of all the German tanks during World War II, the Sd Kfz 181…

The Not So Noblewoman Who Turned Pirate

Her small fleet of three ships flew a bloody red banner and struck terror into the heart of the French fleet. The image many people…

Will the Last WWII Medal of Honor Recipient Lie in State?

Only four WWII Medal of Honor recipients are alive. From the top brass in US politics to the common people all around America, honoring US…

Pitch Invasion – The Football War

The next day the Honduran team was transferred to the stadium in armored vehicles. The history of human kind has seen a number of wars…

Purple Heart Stockpile: The WWII Medals Still Being Issued

By the end of the war, over one million wounded or dead US servicemen from the war received the Purple Hearts. During WWII, the United…

When The Earth Had a Ring About it- Project West Ford

Claudia Mendes

The US military believed that the Soviet Union could attack an undersea cable. The American space program landed people on the moon and has contributed…

Potato Masher Turned to Chips – WW1 Grenade Found in Hong Kong

Employees of a potato chip factory in Hong Kong discovered a German hand grenade. More than a hundred years have passed since the First World…

“Turtle” of 1776 – The First ‘Submarine’ Ever Used In War

Jay Hemmings

The first large-scale example of submarine warfare took place in the First World War, with German U-boats sinking a number of Allied ships, and by…

The Battle of Towton: The Bloodiest Battle Ever Fought On English Soil

Jay Hemmings

The Wars of the Roses in the fifteenth century featured a number of brutal and bloody battles between the Royal Houses of Lancaster and York.…