Joesph Stalin infamous leader of the Soviet Union is well known as a despotic dictator but a lesser known fact is that he enjoyed practical jokes. And as you might guess they were not all that nice. The

We have all heard it said that carrots improve your eyesight, what if I told you they don't? And what if I told you the story was made up to help defeat the Nazis? Interested? Well read on. source Radar

Magellan's Expedition While Magellan deserves quite a lot of credit for the first circumnavigation of the globe he was most certainly not the first person to do it. The main reason we know this? He died

We have all heard it said that carrots improve your eyesight, what if I told you they don't? And what if I told you the story was made up to help defeat the Nazis? Interested? Well read on. source Radar

Joesph Stalin the leader of the Soviet Union is well known as a despotic dictator but a lesser known fact is that he enjoyed practical jokes. And as you might have guessed they were not very nice. source

This is the story of Charles Joughin who was the chief baker on the Titanic when it hit an iceberg on the 14th of April 1912. source The Titanic's final plunge Duty and Drink When it became clear that

I was going to title this post 'after nearly a month MIA', but then I checked my post history and I am truly shocked to see I haven't posted in 2 months. It has been a strange time for me in real life,

A few of my favourite escape stories from the cold war. A Windy Ride When Austrian Heinz Meixner was working in East Berlin, he fell in love, but heartbreakingly they could not get permission, to marry,

No Tom Cruise I am afraid, this is the story of a group of 76 Samurai that went on a diplomatic tour to America in 1860. Two things that made this particularly interesting was: Japan was just beginning

Waterloo, one of the most famous battles in history, ending Napoleon's dramatic return to power. The Emperor himself commanding the french forces and the Duke of Wellington commanding the British with

Why is a tank called a tank?? Well that's what they're called, right!?!? The need for tanks With the advent of the machine gun we saw the death, quite literally, of cavalry. This first became clear in

Firstly I'd like to say that Genghis Khan is one of the most hated figure in history, and rightly so it is estimated that his wars led to the deaths of about 10% of the world's population, while the title