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How was the German Army so Successful at the Start of WWII Against Vastly Superior Numbers?
In the first two years of WWII, the German armed forces – or Wehrmacht- and especially the Army – or ‘Heer’- stunned the world with an unprecedented string of victories against several otherwise prominent nations that it boggles the mind one small nation could so easily conquer, let alone so rapidly. From September 1939 to… Read More »
Hitler’s “Ideal Aryans” Who Were Actually Jewish Ad Campaign
On September 15, 1935, the Reichstag or parliament of the German Third Reich passed the infamous Nuremberg Laws. Comprising the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour and the Reich Citizenship Law, these edicts forbade intermarriage or premarital sex between Aryans and non-Aryans – namely Jews and Roma – categorized people according… Read More »
The “achoo” sound when sneezing is a learned cultural habit, not a pure biological reflex. That’s…
Kate Winslet holds the Guinness World Record for the longest on-screen underwater breath-hold by a…
WTF is Up with Walking Like an Egyptian?
“All the old paintings on the tombs They do the sand dance, don’t you know? If they walk too quick (oh way oh) They’re falling down like a domino Slide your feet up the street, bend your back Shift your arm then you pull it back Life is hard you know (oh way oh) So… Read More »
Who Invented Fast Food Chains?
Ah, fast-food- greasy cow muscle mush topped with melted coagulated milk, diced bodies of allium cepa, and the blood of tomatoes, all wedged between the ground up yeast enhanced carcases of wheat plantlife and served with a side of the fried corpses of tubers. Or for the king of them all- the delectable breasts of… Read More »
A Wingtip and a Prayer: The Insane Way British Pilots Defeated Germany’s Secret Weapon
In the early morning hours of June 13, 1944, the residents of East London were awoken by an unusual sound: a loud, high-pitched chugging like a motorcycle with a broken muffler. Looking up, they saw a small aircraft skimming over the rooftops at tremendous speed, a tongue of flame trailing from its tail. Moments later,… Read More »