The horrific scene in the Singapore Airlines plane free-fall more than 1.8km

Inside deadly Singapore Airlines flight SG321 One passenger was killed and 30 injured after a Singapore Airlines flight from London hit severe turbulence…

The World’s Oldest Papyrus and What It Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramids

David Degner / Getty Reportage Following notes written by an English traveler in the early 19th century and two French pilots in the…

How Did the Bf 109 Nose Cannon Work?

The Bf 109 was famously fitted with a nose cannon that fired right through the propeller spinner, but how does this well known,…

T18 Boarhound American heavy armoured car.

History In July 1941, the United States Army Ordnance Corps issued specifications for a heavy armored car (along with another specification for a medium armored…

The Freakiest Anti-Aircraft Half-Tracks

If you thought tanks were the only things used to make extremely weird anti-aircraft guns, then you are mistaken! The trusty US half-track…

The Soviet flag over the Reichstag, 1945

Soldiers raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, 1945. The “Soviet flag over Reichstag” photograph is full of symbolism and represents a historic…

The Pillow Fight, 1964

Harry Benson didn’t want to meet the Beatles. The Glasgow-born photographer had plans to cover a news story in Africa when he was…

Hitler At A Nazi Party Rally, 1934

Spectacle was like oxygen for the Nazis, and Heinrich Hoffmann was instrumental in staging Hitler’s growing pageant of power. Hoffmann, who joined the…

Iwo Jima: Why Did The WW2 Battle Happen, Why Was It So Hard Fought?

The capture of the Mariana Islands in late 1944 had given the US a base from which to launch long-range bombing raids on…

How the first human X-ray (of a hand in 1895) changed medicine forever.

Wilhelm Roentgen, 50, professor of physics at Wurzburg University, Bavaria, had his eureka moment in 1895 He was studying gases in his lab…

The Story behind the Surreal Photograph of Salvador Dalí and Three Flying Cats

Philippe Halsman Dalí Atomicus, 1948 “Philippe Halsman, Astonish Me!” at Musée de l’Elysée, 2014 Before photographer Philippe Halsman and Surrealist Salvador Dalí settled on the idea of tossing…

The Hindenburg Disaster in rare pictures, 1937

The German zeppelin Hindenburg flies over Manhattan on May 6, 1937. A few hours later, the ship burst into flames in an attempt…