#HISTORY

  • Archaeologists discover a medieval skeleton with his boots still on in London – England :

    Archaeologists discover a medieval skeleton with his boots still on in London – England :

    Archaeologists excavating a site along with the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a massive pipeline nicknamed London’s “super sewer”—have revealed the skeleton of a Medieval man who literally died with his boots on. “It’s extremely rare to discover any boots from the late 15th century, let alone a skeleton still wearing them,”…

  • 1918: The Flu Pandemic

    1918: The Flu Pandemic

    The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in Kansas, United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in April. Two years later, nearly a third of…

  • Man with 14 inch TAIL Indian worshipped as a reincarnation of a monkey god.

    Man with 14 inch TAIL Indian worshipped as a reincarnation of a monkey god.

    Alipurduar, West Bengal, Feb 9, 2014: A man with a 14.5-inch hairy tail growing from his back has been hailed as a god by villagers in West Bengal. Chandre Oraon, 35, was born with a patch of hair on his lower back and has refused to have it cut, leading to…

  • HER NAME IS POETRY AND IS ETERNITY.

    HER NAME IS POETRY AND IS ETERNITY.

    She was called Phillis, because that was the name of the ship that brought her, and Wheatley, which was the name of a merchant who bought her. At thirteen, she was already writing poems in a language that wasn’t her own. No one believed she was the author. At twenty…

  • The atomic bombing of Nagasaki

    The atomic bombing of Nagasaki

    In 1945, in the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, a 10-year-old Japanese boy stood in attention at a cremation site, carrying his deceased baby brother on his back. The boy, barefoot and expressionless, stood in silence as he brought his sibling for cremation. Joe O’Donnell, the American photojournalist…

  • It’s been more than 50 years since the Vietnam War ended.

    It’s been more than 50 years since the Vietnam War ended.

    But for the combat nurses who served there, the details remain as sharp in their minds as the needles they used to help patients heal. Like the tropical heat that greeted Marsha Four when she arrived in July 1969 at the 18th Surgical Hospital at Camp Evans north of Huế.…

  • the partial remains of Andrew Comyn “Sandy”

    the partial remains of Andrew Comyn “Sandy”

    After 100 years of speculation surrounding his fate, the partial remains of Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine are believed to have been discovered on the Central Rongbuk Glacier below the North Face of Mount Everest. Irvine vanished while attempting to conquer the world’s tallest peak in 1924, along with climbing partner…

  • Atlantic slave trade.

    Atlantic slave trade.

    The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage. Europeans established a coastal slave trade in the 15th century and trade to the Americas began…

  • barbaric” mob attack in Nigeria’s southern town of Uromi, in Edo state

    barbaric” mob attack in Nigeria’s southern town of Uromi, in Edo state

    ABUJA, March 28 (Reuters) – At least seven suspected kidnappers were set ablaze and killed in a “barbaric” mob attack in Nigeria’s southern town of Uromi, in Edo state, the governor said on Friday. Edo Governor Monday Okpebholo condemned the mob killing of the individuals, pledging that those responsible would…

  • The Holocaust (1933-1945)

    The Holocaust (1933-1945)

    The Holocaust A genocide during World War II, where six million Jews and millions of others were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime. The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish…