Funny article from cracked.com detailing some of Americas more frivolous skirmishes with itself. Long before and after the "Civil War" Americans were fighting amongst themselves and this article is here to give examples as to when where and why the
Heyerdahl and subsequent researchers believed that statues he found lying on their backs and faces near the roads were abandoned during transportation by the ancient Polynesians.
But his theory has been completely rejected by the team led by Manch
If however the Russian army was ready to hurl several million soldiers into Germany, then they would be caught flat footed and hugely out of place and exposed. It is possible that the swift German success in 1940 in France gave Stalin pause and he h
The good non-political people at Cracked.com put together an article several months ago but it deserves to be revisited. If you feel like this article is biased then think about why you feel that way.
Warming temperatures are melting patches of ice that have been in place for thousands of years in the mountains of the Canadian High Arctic and in turn revealing a treasure trove of ancient hunting tools.
The historians John Thornton and Linda Heywood of Boston University estimate that 90 percent of those shipped to the New World were enslaved by Africans and then sold to European traders. The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships be
The Army Corps of Engineers has uncovered what could be a fourth major disposal area for World War I-era munitions and chemical weapons in the nation's capital. Digging was suspended after workers pulled smoking glassware from the pit,
In the past I have given you quote compliations from the left on everything from the environment to America. Below is a compilation of inspiring quotes from the founders and other patriots about our nation, liberty and our national values. They put t
"The Negro is indolent and spends his money on frivolities and booze, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent." Racist Communist killer revolutionaries are so 1960s. As in Che is passé.
The Freedom School was founded in 1956 “to conduct a school for students sixteen years old and over to teach primarily the libertarian philosophy of individualism.” The courses run for a two-week period and cost from $60 (“workshops for advanced stud
APFN — March 13, 2010 — The shadow government of assassins, arms dealers, drug smugglers,former CIA operatives and top US military personnel who were running foreign policy unaccountable to the public, revealing the Reagan/Bush administration's pl
Japan confirmed Tuesday secret Cold War-era pacts with Washington that tacitly allowed nuclear warships in Japanese ports in violation of a hallowed postwar principle, effectively acknowledging that previous governments had lied about them for decade
Scouting founder Lord Robert Baden-Powell was invited to meet Adolf Hitler after friendly talks with the Hitler Youth about forming closer ties, secret British files released Monday showed.
Britain's Baden-Powell, who started the Scouts in 1907, h
Cooking is something we all take for granted but a new theory suggests that if we had not learned to cook food, not only would we still look like chimps but, like them, we would also be compelled to spend most of the day chewing.
The site isn't just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape
That is odd enough. However, new evidence suggests the little folk of Flores may be even stranger in origin. According to a growing number of scientists, Homo floresiensis is probably a direct descendant of some of the first apemen to evolve on the
A team of researchers from Spain's Higher Council for Scientific Study (CSIC) are examining a marshy area of Andalusian parkland to find evidence of a 3,000-year-old settlement.
They believe that Tartessos, a wealthy civilization in southern Iber
In 1974, far out in the Pacific, a U.S. ship pretending to be a deep-sea mining vessel fished a sunken Soviet nuclear-armed submarine out of the ocean depths, took what it could of the wreck and made off to Hawaii with its purloined prize.
Now, Wa
Robertson, Haiti, the Devil and History
By: Stephen Estes
There was much fanfare and accusation of idiocy following the Pat Robertson statement that suggests Haiti was rocked by a 7.0 earthquake on January 12, 2010 as a result of a secret pact b
It was also a year of Change, especially in Washington, where the tired old hacks of yesteryear finally yielded the reins of power to a group of fresh, young, idealistic, new-idea outsiders such as Nancy Pelosi.
I suspect the fact that it returned gold each season to the Emperor of China postponed its premature suspension until the gold itself ran out at the end of the fifteenth century.
I get angry every time I read an effusive remark about the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Uninformed polemicists fawn about these self-proclaimed freedom fighters who were generally motivated by the dictates of Joesph Stalin. This group of persons had
“The Death of American Virtue,” asserts Bill Clinton had yet another extramarital affair, with Susan McDougal of Whitewater fame. Monica Lewinsky tells author Gormley the president lied under oath when he described their encounters.
Has the Lost City of Atlantis finally been located? It's the latest speculation, based on pictures of what appears to be an underwater city in the Caribbean Sea.
A former member of the Nazi SS being tried for murder admitted in court Tuesday that he killed three Dutch civilians during World War II, but insisted he was following orders.
Heinrich Boere told the Aachen state court in a statement read by attor
When Ira Hayes was alive, his image was captured in one of the most famous battle photographs ever taken - the World War II picture of U.S. Marines raising the flag over Iwo Jima.
Now, more than a half-century later, it turns out that Hayes' image