On May 29, 1935, the brainchild of Willy Messerschmitt, the Bf-109, made its first flight. The most produced fighter of all time, the Germans... Read More

Mehmed II, also known as The Conqueror is one of the famous sultans of Ottoman Empire with his intelligence. Mehmed II ruled the Ottoman for... Read More

For Memorial Day, I want to share a personal story written almost 80 years ago by my naval officer grandfather about how, in 1941, he played... Read More

One of America's greatest tragedies is curiously absent from most U.S. history textbooks. On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam failed, and the... Read More

There is something uniquely chilling about a natural disaster, the uncontrolled, unpreventable fury of normally benign elements: a blue sky... Read More

Getting America to full employment again won’t be easy. As a recent study by the University of Chicago’s Becker-Friedman... Read More

WITH a couple of tinnies and a second-hand fish finder, they solved a mystery that had confounded maritime experts for more than 64 years.And... Read More

Andrew Jackson was the 7th President of the United States, a General, a celebrated war hero, and one of the founders of the Democratic Party.... Read More

Memorials to Hope have proliferated across the American landscape. You can walk down streets named for Bob Hope in El Paso, Texas, Miami,... Read More

Charles Voyde Harrelson (July 23, 1938 – March 15, 2007) was an American freelance hitman connected with organized crime and was... Read More

On May 28, 1999, 22 years of hard work repairing and restoring Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, The Last Supper, was finally completed... Read More

The Belgian Army was stretched from Cadzand south to Menin on the river Leie, and west, from Menin, to Bruges without any sort of... Read More

__585 B.C.: __A solar eclipse in Asia Minor brings an abrupt halt to a battle, as the warring armies lay down their arms and declare a truce.... Read More

In 1948, the state of Israel was proclaimed. Palestine was lost. Sixteen years later, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) was... Read More

No one can question the bravery and valor of the U.S. Marines. But is the legend about their "Devil Dogs" nickname based on fact? Every... Read More

We’ve been talking about Volkswagen a lot lately, for pretty obvious reasons. And pretty often in all this talking, we’ve... Read More

In the early morning sunshine of the fourth spring of World War One, young lieutenants climbed onto the dirt parapets of their trenches, blew... Read More

In September 1985, the Soviet State Security Committee (KGB) informed other Warsaw Pact foreign intelligence agencies that it had launched a... Read More

Tomorrow marks the 114th anniversary of Mark Twain‘s well-known, much-quoted, often-distorted observation: “The report of my... Read More

For more than a half-century, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants were two of baseball's leading lights. They had the beautiful... Read More