Roughly 150,000 men of Jewish descent fought in Hitler’s army. While their families back home were being corralled into ghettos and sent…
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History
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The 19th and 20th centuries were a period of unprecedented change in human history. In 1807, the Napoleonic Wars were raging; in…
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Most fans of American colonial history know about the harrowing disaster of Roanoke or the many problems faced by the first Jamestown…
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In modern times, France has developed a reputation for being unsuccessful in war. This started during World War II when the French…
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Many people who only encounter the Greek and Roman myths as children never learn just how weird some of them are. In…
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For millennia, we’ve been using swords to settle heated debates, as what is war but a debate that got really out of…
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The vast majority of castles these days are little more than ruins preserved by charitable organizations for educational value. In the past,…
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According to legend, the first emperor of Japan took the Chrysanthemum Throne in 660 BC. Since Emperor Jimmu’s ascension, some 126 emperors…
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The Spanish flu often gets overshadowed by its more popular counterparts like Ebola and the Black Plague. In many ways, though, it…
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Most tragic events make a historical splash, and some become positively iconic—Pompeii, the Titanic, the Rwandan genocide, etc. Others, however, drop off…