Disaster
Last Minute Decisions That Changed History
The world is more fragile than we think, and the course of events is seldom set in stone: introduce a…
These Facts Will Alter the Perception of Historical Timelines
There are history’s broad outlines, known to many, and there are history’s minor details, known mostly just to history buffs.…
Little Mistakes from History With Huge Consequences
Everybody makes little mistakes, but most of the time our mistakes have few, if any, serious consequences. And if they…
This is the Truth Behind All of the Famous Myths We Hear About
Some famous people and events from mythology are pure fiction. They are inventions of fertile imaginations and the creative products…
The Year with No Summer was a Brutal Shock for Half the World in 1816
A strange thing happened to the northern hemisphere in the summer months of 1816, the first full year of peace…
20 Unusual Deaths from the History Books
Death is a regrettable but nonetheless unavoidable element of the human condition. Whilst most people pass into the great abyss…
20 Incredible Works of Art that are Lost Forever
Whilst today we take for granted the idea that all we produce will be stored indefinitely, whether on the cloud…
Greed Created These Horrific Financial Crises
Before economists coined the terms recession and the more foreboding depression to describe economic downturns such events were called panics.…
20 Historic Events Even the Movies Won’t Touch
Hollywood has never had a shortage of dumb movie plots. Nor did it have a dearth of far-fetched scenes that…
20 Archaeological Finds That Rewrote History
For the bulk of history, knowledge of significant past events had a distressing tendency to blend into the mists of…