# Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Offbeat Warfare Facts that Will Confound History Buffs
In 1941, Poland declared war against Japan. In a strange twist, the Japanese government refused to accept the Polish declaration of war. Not only that, but the Japanese helped the Poles spy…
Fabricated Stories About World War II Still Known by Many
As the twentieth century’s seminal event, the Second World War has inspired its fair share of myths with no grounding…
32 Inspirational Moments Eleanor Roosevelt Gave the World
Eleanor Roosevelt was a woman who fought not only for women’s rights but for all of the poor and oppressed.…
16 Medical Procedures and Devices from the Early 1900s that are Straight Out of a Nightmare
Medical devices from the early part of the 1900s looked like torture devices dreamed up by the devil himself. They…
This WWII Plan Consisted of Incinerating Japan With Bats Bearing Tiny Bombs
During World War II, a Pennsylvania dentist named Lytle S. Adams had an outside-the-box-thinking brainstorm: incinerate Japanese cities with tiny…
FDR’s Investigation of Homosexuals at the Army and Navy YMCA in Rhode Island
Thomas Brunelle was recovering in a naval hospital in early 1919. As he waited to be discharged to rejoin his…
The Teenage Spy Who Saved FDR, Churchill, and Stalin
The Tehran Conference, November 28th to December 1st, 1943 was the first meeting of World War II's "Big Three" Allied…
Lone Wolves: 7 Assassins Behind Failed Presidential Murder Attempts You May Not Heard Of
Over the last few decades, presidential assassination attempts have become such regular occurrences, it sometimes feels as if this was…