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This War Hero Spent his Life Fighting Communists
To say that Larry Thorne did not like communists would be an understatement. The man led an extraordinary life that…
Amazing Women Who Should Be Way More Famous
History has an unfortunate tendency to gloss over the accomplishments and deeds of women. Which is a shame on many…
Odd Details About Famous Historical Events Nobody Talks About
For non-history buffs, history often comes across as dry, stiff, and too serious. Which is unfortunate, because when we scratch…
The Marine Who Took on Thousands of Japanese Soldiers in World War II
It takes serious guts to stand up to thousands of fanatical enemy soldiers charging one’s position at night in a…
Quirks and Oddities of Influential People in History
American presidential weirdness, scandal, and battiness is not a new phenomenon, but one that has been around since the country’s…
20 Outlandish Historical Facts That Actually Exist
It is almost a certainty that a time will come when our distant descendants will look back at our era…
FRACTURE JAW: The Plan to Nuke North Vietnam
1968 was a bad year for the American war effort in Vietnam, and for general William Westmoreland, the overall US…
These Tough Americans Fought In WWII, Korea, and Vietnam
Some Americans served in the Second World War, then in Korea, and also in Vietnam. For example, Elmo Zumwalt served…
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 Noble Relationships in History that Had Internal Conflict
In the real-life Game of Thrones, hunger for power, the fear of losing it, or just plain perversions, have often…