# American History
The Secret Love Life of Marie Antoinette and More Historic Romance
Marie Antoinette was long rumored to have been in love with a Swedish nobleman, who might have fathered at least…
The Enduring Myths of the 1950s People Should Unlearn
Beginning in the early 1970s Americans initiated a wave of nostalgia for the 1950s. The 1960s brought the turmoil of…
Business Pioneers that Had Quite the Disturbing Background
French designer and business entrepreneur Coco Chanel revolutionized fashion, came up with one of history’s most popular perfumes and was…
The Spy Who Led an Army to its Doom With Fake Newspapers and Letters
In 1805, a spy tricked an Austrian general to lead an army of 72,000 men out of a strongly fortified…
Historic Air Raids that Rained Fury from the Skies
In 1943, an RAF raid was mounted to troll the Nazis and disrupt the commemoration of their tenth anniversary in…
The War That Lasted 38 Minutes and Other Fascinating Warfare History
The shortest war in recorded history was fought in 1896, and it lasted for all of thirty eight minutes. For…
President Roosevelt’s Bar Fight and More Quirky and Creepy Presidential Facts
The lives of many American presidents contain lesser-known but fascinating facts that we seldom learn in school. Take Teddy Roosevelt.…
Failed Double-Barrel Cannon and Other Weapons That Absolutely Flopped
A sad fact about human nature is that few things get the creative juices to flow more copiously than plans…
The Boeing B-52 Was the Greatest Fighting Airplane of Them All
Officially it is known as the Stratofortress, following the styling assigned to its predecessors, the B-17 Flying Fortress and the…
Daring Escapes from Concentrations Camps, Enemies, and Crashed Planes
Dangers and perils come at us in many shapes and forms, and all we can do is try to duck…