Tag Archives: History
The Humble Metal Can That Won WWII
“An army marches on its stomach.” This adage, variously ascribed to Frederick the Great or Napoleon Bonaparte, captured one of the universal truths of warfare: that battles are won not by men and weapons, but by logistics – the ability to efficiently and reliably supply said men and guns with the ammunition, food, medicine, and… Read More »
History’s Overlapping Moments: 6 Impossible Time Windows That Actually Existed
While many of us are taught to think of time as a straight line—past behind us, future ahead—I’ve never been fully convinced. To me, time feels less like a ruler and more like the Milky Way itself: vast, whirling, looping back on its own light, sometimes brushing against its own tail. History doesn’t move forward… Read More »
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….
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 »
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 »