Some had more fun during history’s deadliest conflict than others. “Koivunen was assigned to a ski patrol on 20 April 1944, along with several other men. Three days into their mission, on March 18th, the group was attacked and surrounded by Soviet forces, from which they managed to escape. Koivunen […]
A tale both beautiful and strange emanating from WWII – but lasting for decades afterwards. “The Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident occurred on 20 December 1943, when, after a successful bomb run on Bremen, 2nd Lt Charles “Charlie” Brown’s B-17 Flying Fortress (named “Ye Olde Pub”) was severely damaged […]
This hunt for Hitler’s personal diaries broke into an international scandal – but not for the reasons you might think. “The Hitler Diaries (German: Hitler-Tagebücher) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by Adolf Hitler, but forged by Konrad Kujau between 1981 and 1983. The diaries were […]
With the official version of events being so strange, do we really know what happened here? “Ursula Eriksson and Sabina Eriksson (born 3 November 1967) are Swedish twin sisters who came to national attention in the United Kingdom in May 2008. The twins had been in Ireland before travelling to […]
It’s the greatest “what if” of our time; what if bin Laden was an elephant? Well, wonder no more. “Osama bin Laden was a rogue bull elephant named after the eponymous designated terrorist of the same name. It was responsible for at least 27 deaths and destruction of property in […]
It’s the siege you’ve probably never heard of; find out why Rainbow Farm found itself under attack by the law, and why it wouldn’t happen today. “Rainbow Farm was a pro-marijuana campground in Newberg Township, Cass County, Michigan, United States, that was involved in a fatal police standoff on September […]
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Poland’s first encyclopedia is a pretty terrible encyclopedia, but it is funny! “Nowe Ateny (New Athens) is the abbreviated title of the first Polish-language encyclopedia, authored by the 18th-century Polish priest Benedykt Joachim Chmielowski. The first edition was published in 1745–1746 in Lwów (Lviv); the second edition was updated and […]
So you want someone dead, but they’re far away – thankfully a gun can solve this problem. But there are other problems people of the past have tried to solve with guns – like how can I let people know I disapprove of their religion? “The Puckle gun (also known […]
