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Khalid Elhassan
The Underappreciated Curtiss P-40 Warhawk: One of WWII’s Most Important Fighters
The A15 Crusader, Britain’s Most Controversial WWII Tank
WWII’s Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, History’s Sole Rocket-Propelled Fighter
Swords From Around the World: The Cutlass, Classic Sword of Sailors and Pirates
American Tanks of World War II: The M3 Stuart Light Tank
Sigurd the Mighty: The Viking Killed by a Dead Enemy
WWI’s Adrian Helmet: The First Modern Combat Helmet
The Ides of March and Julius Caesar’s Assassination: A Killing’s Unintended Consequences
The WWII Partisan Assassination of Wilhelm Kube, Nazi Governor of Occupied Belarus
The Semovente da 75/18: Italy’s WWII Self-Propelled Gun That Became a Surprisingly Effective Tank Destroyer
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it in Their Pants – Grover Cleveland’s Scandals: Assaulting a Date, and Grooming a Child Bride
Beefs: Prince’s Rivalry With Michael Jackson Got So Bad, He Tried to Run MJ Over With a Limousine
The Office Safe That Killed Whiskey Distiller Jack Daniel
King Charles III’s Prophet Muhammad Ancestry
WWII’s PIAT: The Anti-Tank Weapon that Launched Projectiles With a Spring
Trial of the Six: When Greece Executed its Top Leaders for Treason and Incompetence After a Disastrous War
WWII’s Boulton Paul Defiant Turret Fighter: An Innovative Idea Based on Bad Assumptions
The 365 Crete Earthquake and Tsunami: A Disaster that Devastated the Ancient Mediterranean World
The Daimler Armoured Car: Britain’s Most Successful WWII Reconnaissance Vehicle
The Sinking of the Scharnhorst: Ending Germany’s Surface Fleet Threat in WWII
SS War Criminal Joachim Peiper Burned Hundreds of Innocents, and Was Burned to Death in His Home After WWII
Anne Bonny: Fierce Female Pirate of the Caribbean
The Little-Known 1977 Four Day War Between Egypt and Libya: A Turning Point in Middle Eastern Geopolitics
Swords From Around the World – The Falchion: Preferred Sword of Medieval Infantry
The Grumman F8F Bearcat: The Pinnacle of Piston Engine Fighter Design and Technology
Charles Vane: The Fierce and Unstable Pirate Who Scared Other Pirates
Chin Shi Huangdi’s Death: The Emperor Who Poisoned Himself Seeking Immortality Drugs
Edward Colquhoun Charlton Was So Courageous that the *Enemy* Recommended Him for a Victoria Cross
The Shaggs: A Prophecy, a Dad’s Delusions, and an Awful Album that Became a Cult Classic
WWII Bombers – The Polikarpov Po-2: The Humble Biplane that Kept the Germans Awake at Night
Laurentius Hornaeus and the Torsaker Witch Trials: The Pastor Who Got Dozens of Innocents Executed
The Underappreciated Valentine, Britain’s Most Produced WWII Tank
Prohibition that Worked: China’s 1950s Anti-Opium Campaign, History’s Most Successful Anti-Drug Effort
The 1974 White House Helicopter Incident: When a Disturbed Army Private Landed a Stolen Huey on the White House Lawn
La Nueve: The Anarchists Who Spearheaded the Liberation of Paris in WWII
Chappie James: America’s First Black Four-Star General
Stalin’s Soviet Millionaires: High Rollers in the Communist ‘Workers’ Paradise’
WWII Bombers: The Mitsubishi Ki-21, Japan’s Early Mainstay Bomber
Bloody April, 1917: British Airmen’s Grimmest Stretch of WWI
Civil War Child Soldier John Cook Joined the Union Army Aged Thirteen, Won a Medal of Honor When He Was Fifteen
‘He Never Killed a Man That Didn’t Need Killing’: Wild West Gunslinger Clay Allison
WWII Bombers – The Tupolev SB: Backbone of the Soviet Air Force at War’s Start
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, America’s Key Fighter for Most of the Cold War
Project Needles: When the US Seeded Space With Hundreds of Millions of Tiny Needles
Eugene Bullard: The First African American Fighter Pilot Flew for France in WWI When America’s Military Wouldn’t Have Him
Flying Donkey: The Polikarpov I-16, Backbone of the Soviet Air Force at the Start of WWII
The Praetorian Throne Auction: When the Praetorian Guard Sold Rome’s Throne to the Highest Bidder
WWII Fighters – The MiG-3: A Great High Altitude Interceptor in a Low Altitude War
Ford’s Edsel Debacle: One of the Biggest Flops in Business History
“Tell Them I Said Something!” – Pancho Villa’s Last Words
Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Squadron: America’s WWII Black Pilots
The Hammersmith Ghost Hysteria: A Public Panic that Led to a Landmark Murder Case
The Pioneer Probes Plaque, and the Controversy About Sharing Earth’s Address With the Universe
The Shrigley Abduction: When New Zealand’s Founder Kidnapped and Coerced a 15 y.o. Heiress Into Marriage
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it In Their Pants: George H. W. Bush’s Affairs
The Tycoon and the Teenager: When Actress Jane Greer Rejected His Advances, Howard Hughes Bought a Studio to Wreck Her Career
Ax Murderer John Lynch, Australia’s Outback Serial Killer
William Henry Johnson, the “Black Death” Whose WWI Heroism Was Overlooked for Nearly a Century
Girolamo Savonarola and the Bonfire of the Vanities: A Maoist Cultural Revolution in 1400s Florence
Myths and Realities: Just How Real Was Hollywood’s ‘The Alamo’?
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