D-Day’s Forgotten Critical Secret Weapon
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a massive armada of more than 5,000 ships and 1,200 aircraft appeared off the coast of Normandy in northern France. Moments later, some 160,000 American and British Commonwealth troops stormed onto the beaches or landed by parachute behind enemy lines. Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of… Read More »
How Did the Crusades Actually Work?
When thinking about the middle ages, chances are that among the many images popping into your mind there stands a noble knight. Now, there are a variety of myths about what it was like to be a knight during medieval times, not just spread by Hollywood, but even by the contemporary legends during medieval times… Read More »
Fujio Masuoka invented flash memory at Toshiba in the 1980s, the storage inside most phones today….
New wave of fake stories about curbs on personal freedoms and bogus taxes rack up millions of views on social media
Picture of ‘pink ladies of Epping’ isn’t real
No, you won’t be fined by the government for hanging washing outside
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 »