Cold War
Historical Debacles: 12 Humiliating Military Defeats from Ancient Times to the Modern Era
de·ba·cle /dāˈbäk(ə)l,dəˈbäk(ə)l/ noun a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco. In most battles and wars, there are winners and losers.…
Last Words: 10 Memorable Dying Statements From Famous Figures
From Julius Caesar's "et tu, Brute?" to Humphrey Bogart's "I should never have switched from scotch to martinis", last words…
The Yugoslavian Leader Who Survived Waves of Stalin’s Assassins and Hitler’s Best Troops
“Stop sending people to kill me… If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't…
24 Pictures Examining Life in Communist Poland
Communism in Poland traces its roots back to the late 19th century when the Marxist First Proletariat Party was founded…
20 Photographs from the 1959 Cold War Kitchen Debate
The Kitchen Debate was a series of impromptu exchanges (through interpreters) between then U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet…
23 Photographs of the Polish Solidarity Movement That Helped Bring About the End of Communism
Solidarność, the Polish Solidarity Movement, a labor union founded on September 17, 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk. The…
Non-Violent Defiance: 5 Boycotts that Changed America
Boycotts are a form of non-violet protest intended to do economic harm. They have a tendency to also bring attention…
26 Photographs of the Frightening Strength of Nuclear Weapons from the Bikini Atoll Tests
The nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll was a series of 23 nuclear detonations by the United State between 1946 and…
22 Photographs of the Historic Apollo 11 Mission
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy declared “we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station…
25 Rare Pictures of Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959-1976 and President from 1976…