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On this day…in 1879
At Kambula, in northwest Zululand, a force of 2,000 British and Colonial troops under the command of British Colonel Henry Evelyn Wood defeats 20,000...
On this day…in 2005
On the morning of July 7, 2005, bombs are detonated in three crowded London Underground stations and one bus during the peak of the...
Study finds Americans are the most stupid people on the planet
Every country on earth has its stupid people. But a recent Rand study examining 160 countries concludes America now has the highest percentage of...
History is in the eye of the ignorant
I am getting older and spend my time looking backwards at history.
That is true history, not the history proposed by twenty somethings just out...
Do we really care about those who suffer in war?
Who said the world is going to hell in a hand cart? Who ever it was, they're getting closer to the truth every day.
War is...
Sodom and Gomorrah
I'm getting older , but IÂ still remember times past...a time of monsters.
Dictators like Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Colonel Gadalfi, Idi Amin and Adolf Hitler...
On this day…in 1842
On January 13, 1842, a British army doctor reaches the British sentry post at Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the lone survivor of a 16,000-strong Anglo-Indian expeditionary...
On this day…in 1942
On this day, Thailand, a Japanese puppet state, declares war on the Allies.
When war broke out in Europe in September 1939, Thailand declared its...
On this day…in 1915
During World War I, Britain suffers its first casualties from an air attack when two German Zeppelins drop bombs on the eastern coast of...
On this day…in 1939
At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish...
