# Bengal Famine
The Real Rosie the Riveter and Other Lesser Known Iconic WWII Facts and Figures
One of World War II’s most famous images, that is seen as iconic today, was hardly noticed by anybody during the conflict. One of the war’s greatest technological breakthroughs, the world’s first…
Remarkable Historic Blunders these People Should be Embarrassed About
We all screw up from time to time, but few of us have ever committed a blunder as great as…
Throwing Slaves Overboard to Drown and Other Dark Moments From History
History is chock full of dark examples of people’s inhumanity to each other. From the throwing of slaves into the…
20 Historical Figures Who Changed The World, and Also Committed Monstrous Deeds
People are usually complex, and throughout history, other than at the extremes of the moral spectrum, few significant figures have…
10 of History’s Worst Colonial Disasters
In 1800, before the Industrial Revolution, Europeans controlled 35% of world. By 1914, on the eve of World War I,…
40 Images of the Tragic Bengal Famine of 1943
The Bengal famine of 1943 was a major food shortage in the Bengal province in British India during World War…