# NAZIS
These Stars Traded Hollywood Glamor for Wartime Glory
Movie star Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993) turned heads on screen and in real life with her radiant beauty, grace,…
How Lies Surrounding the Alamo took Root and Other Historic Myths
Many historic account has been widely disseminated for generations, only to get exposed as a myth when examined carefully. Take…
Governments that Tried to Create Super Soldiers and Super Weapons
In the eighteenth century, a Prussian king tried to create an army of super big soldiers. He couldn’t find enough…
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…
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…
Don’t Take these Historic Events Out of Context Like Everybody Else Does
Context is important, but too often history is presented and accepted without necessary context that explains the otherwise inexplicable or…
Jaw Dropping World War II Stories that Deserve to be in the History Books
World War II witnessed many an extraordinary feat, but few matched that of a Cherokee professional knife and tomahawk thrower…
Dark Historical Facts for the Macabre History Fan
1980s serial killer Ricardo Richard Ramirez was a truly macabre figure. A monster raised in a family that had more…