In the late 1930s, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin feared the rise of political rivals. To ensure complete loyalty within the top-down administration of…
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Nine Kings 1910
In May 1910, European royalty gathered in London for the funeral of King Edward VII . Among the mourners…
1902-7 – "Iron Man" Diving Apparatus by Capt. Enos B. Petrie and Joseph E. Martin. It is diver O. E. Gaudy (Gandy?) inside…
Nathan Bedford Forrest TITLE Lieutenant General WAR & AFFILIATION Civil War / Confederate DATE OF BIRTH – DEATH July 13, 1821 – October…
In May of 1943, two B-17s (from two separate Bomb Groups) were the first two heavy bombers to complete 25 combat…
Memphis Belle today. (Image credit: Author). What began as any other B-17 to roll out of the Boeing assembly line and became an…
Sophia Loren: Stunning vintage photos of the Italian classic beauty icon, 1950s-1960s Sophia Loren (born in1934, Rome, Italy), is an Italian film actress…
When a Confederate colonel called John Clem a "damned little Yankee devil" and demanded his surrender at the Battle of Chickamauga, John shot…
In 1989, the wreckage of the Bismarck, one of Nazi Germany’s most formidable battleships, was located in the depths of the North Atlantic…