The Battle of Rotterdam began May 10th, 1940, and ended with the bombings on Rotterdam May 14th, 1940. German forces saw the Netherlands as an opportune place to build an Air Force base, as well as to ...

The Second World War saw the implementation of a number of new weapons and devices. In particular, the Allied forces had to contend with many enemy inventions whenever they conducted beach landings, ...

Project Stargate sounds like something out of this world – and it kind of is. No, it doesn’t refer to wormholes or the exploration of other planets, but, instead, a Central Intelligence Agency ...

Symbols during wartime are important and, more than that, they are powerful. Winston Churchill famously used the “V for Victory” symbol during World War II, which was adopted by the United Kingdom as ...

On December 7, 1972, a three-man crew was launched into space on the final mission of NASA‘s Apollo program. For 12 days, they orbited space, landed on the Moon and conducted various scientific ...

In 1345, the city of Caffa was razed by a vicious pandemic, in what would, centuries later, be recognized as the first use of biological warfare in history. After successfully repelling the first ...

From July 1976 to December 1989 a strange noise could be heard on shortwave radios all around the globe. The signal was extremely powerful and was immediately noticed by both amateur and professional ...

The First World War introduced many new weapons to the world of warfare. The first global mechanized war saw the first use of tanks and combat airplanes, but it’s less well known that the first ...

One of the best-known films about the Second World War is The Longest Day (1962), which centers around D-Day. In a number of scenes, members of the cast, whether they’re portraying members of the ...

The flintlock mechanism not only changed how soldiers fought on the battlefield, it also changed how firearms were made. This allowed a far greater variety of guns to be designed and produced which, ...

Everyone has heard of the Centurions of the Roman Army. From school history lessons to Asterix comics, they crop up again and again in modern representations of Rome and its army. What exactly did ...

Abraham Wald was a Hungarian mathematician who made significant contributions to the field of statistical analysis in the first half of the 20th century. One of his most notable successes was his work ...