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Backstories Of History’s Most Iconic Photographs
A photo of Abraham Lincoln looking “normal” was desperately needed in the 1860 presidential campaign, to dispel a narrative that he was grotesquely ugly. Photographer Matthew Brady came to the rescue, with…
American History
The Most Dramatic Aerial Attacks That Changed Military History
A raid in 1945 that used air-dropped incendiaries was history’s deadliest aerial attack. It set a significant chunk of a…
American History
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…
American History
A Surgeon With 300% Mortality Rate From a Single Operation and Other Historic Screwups
Everybody has made a mistake or two - or twenty. Fortunately – and sometimes unfortunately, because some mistakes actually make…