Tag Archives: History
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WTF Fun Fact 12724 – Creating Summer Indoor Entertainment
WTF Fun Fact 12723 – Air Conditioning Was Invented In Buffalo, New York
Dance Until You Die: The Perverse Depression-Era Fad of Dance Marathons
The “Roaring 20s” were a time of liberation and experimentation in America. In the wake of the First World War and the Spanish Flu pandemic, which collectively killed more than 100 million people worldwide, Americans were eager to break free of the moral and social constraints of the past and experience every pleasure and thrill… Read More »
WTF Fun Fact 12722 – A Tenth Of A Cent Of Savings
Yet Another of Hitler’s Ultimate Dick Moves
On November 11, 1918, representatives from Imperial Germany and the Entente Powers gathered in a railway carriage near the French forest of Compiègne [“Kom-pee-enne”] to sign a historic document. This document, signed at 5AM, declared an armistice or cease-fire between the two powers, to take effect at 11AM that morning. And so at the eleventh… Read More »
Cultivator No.6 Winston Churchill’s Trench-Digging White Elephant
Generals, it is said, are always ready to fight the last war. Never has this adage been more true than in the years 1939-1941, when the Nazi blitzkrieg swept its way across Europe. German divisions, spearheaded by tanks and supported by ground-attack aircraft, either steamrollered over or bypassed entirely the French Maginot Line and other… Read More »
Briefcase of Armageddon (And How a U.S. Nuclear Barrage Would Be Carried Out)
By nearly every measure, the Office of President of the United States is the most powerful position in the world, its holder presiding over not only the world’s largest economy but also its third-largest military and largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. The United States Nuclear Stockpile currently stands at 3,800 warheads, distributed among the three… Read More »