History

Around the year 1530, the Inca state had reached its greatest expansion, covering roughly one million square kilometers. The economy flourished, and...

Iceland has not had its own military since 1944 and has not been attacked by any other country since. We tell you why and how this is possible.

Fact is that the earliest precursors of the numbers we use today were developed in India. This can be traced back to...

With 133 days at sea, the Chinese Poon Lim holds the record for the longest time a shipwrecked person has spent alone on a raft on the high seas. During his time on the ocean, he even managed to kill a shark.

On 24 January 1961 a US Air Force B-52 bomber crashed during a military exercise and had to initiate the emergency jettison of two hydrogen bombs over the Goldboro region (North Carolina, USA). On one of the bombs, only one of four safety devices remained intact after the crash, while the second bomb landed in a swamp area where remains of the bomb are still found to this day.

War? War never changes! This might be wrong or even right but fact is that war is more than just people killing...

In 1755, Lisbon was hit by a strong earthquake that destroyed almost all the Catholic churches in the city, while all the city’s brothels remained largely intact. The event ushered in a long-lasting crisis of faith in Portugal.

On 24 May 1991, a Boeing 747 aircraft took off from Addis Ababa airport, carrying 1 088 passengers. To this day, this...

Einstein once said that only the work of Galileo can be seen as the real beginning of astronomy and physics. All before...

It's already more than 100 years ago that Einstein developed his general theory of relativity and thereby flipping our understanding of physics...

During the Second World War, the US Army maintained a tactical deception unit. It consisted of numerous artists, film set designers and actors. Their task was to create vehicle dummies and to simulate operations. Soldiers called their friends in this unit the “Ghost Army”.

In September 1719, prisoners in Paris were released under the condition that they marry a prostitute and emigrate to Louisiana, USA. The objective was to advance French colonies along the Mississippi.