# WW I
16 Forgotten or Lesser Known WWI Facts
November of 2018 will see the centennial of the end of World War I, optimistically labeled by some contemporaries as "The War to End All Wars". It was history's first truly global…
10 American Heroes of the First World War You Should Know About
By the time American troops arrived on the Western Front during the First World War the Empires of Europe had…
10 of History’s Biggest Badasses
What makes a badass? Depends on one's definition and frame of reference. Generally, a badass is somebody who is tough…
History’s Failed Military Weapons
As with all inventions, new weapons ideas and designs are thought up and proposed all the time. And as with…
12 Momentous Cancelled Military Operations
History is determined not only by great deeds done but also by deeds not done and courses not taken. Nowhere…
25 Photographs of the History of the FBI, Part 2: World War I, Espionage, and the Red Scare
The Bureau of Investigation started with mostly white-collar and civil rights cases such as land fraud, banking fraud, copyright violations,…
This Day In History: The Dutch Refuse to Extradite Wilhelm II (1920)
On this day in 1920, the Dutch government was at the center of a diplomatic and a political storm. They…
This Day In History: The First Battle of Ypres Begins (1914)
On this date in history on October the 19th , in 1914, the First Battle of Ypres was fought. The…
This Day In History: The Allies Capture Damascus From the Ottoman’s (1918)
On the night of September 30, 1918, as Allied forces led by General Edmund Allenby march steadily toward Damascus, Turkish…
This Day In History: The Allies Breech the German Hindenburg Line (1918)
On this day in 1918, during the last phase of WWI the Allies breached the defensive German line known as…