# War
Money, Mistresses & Mayhem: How Charles II’s Womanizing Almost Destroyed Britain
After his father was executed at Whitehall in 1649, Charles II went on the run to avoid the same fate.…
When the Lower Class Fights Back: 12 of History’s Greatest Peasant Revolts
Most people today grew up and live in societies in which concepts such as egalitarianism and equal treatment before the…
8 Attempts of Sabotage that Tried to Change the World As We Know It
The word sabotage has been apocryphally linked to the act of throwing wooden shoes – known as sabots – into…
12 of History’s Most Notorious Pirates Will Make You Want to Stay off the Seven Seas
Piracy - the act of violent robbery by seaborne attackers against ships or coastal areas in order to seize valuables…
12 of the Most Unbelievably Strange Deaths of the Renaissance
The one commonality uniting all of mankind, regardless of time, place, race or sex is that sooner or later, everybody…
Tragedy and Honor: 10 Details You Didn’t Know About the Life of a Kamikaze Pilot
On October 25, 1944, during the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, the Japanese deployed the first weapon of its kind,…
12 of History’s Most Bizarre Rulers
From King Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia who collected giants to staff his favorite regiment the way little girls collected dolls,…
Ancient Men of Power: The Roman Republic’s Most Influential Leaders
The Res Publica Romana, or the Roman Republic, was the nearly 500 year period between the overthrow of the Roman…
Lighthearted Photographs of Soldiers Having Fun
Over 250,000 underage soldiers fought for the British Army during World War 1. The average age of a US GI…
Plunder and Destroy: 12 of History’s Most Daring Raids
A raid is an armed mission by a relatively small group of attackers, prepared in secret with the hope of…