Year: 2014
InfoGraphic — The First World War Explained… As a Bar Fight
Something to brighten your Monday? Here’s an amusing little item from the Internet in which the whole of World War One is depicted as a massive fist-fight between the tipsy patrons of some watering hole….
Recommended Reading – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Crimean War (But Never Thought to Ask)
“We interrupt our ongoing wall-to-wall coverage of the 100th anniversary of the First World War to bring you this backgrounder on the Crimean War…” With Russian boots on the ground in the Crimea, media outlets…
By The Numbers – Some of the World’s Longest and Shortest Wars
By MHN Staff HISTORY HAS WITNESSED hundreds of civil wars, at least two “world wars” and more than 40 distinct wars of independence. Other conflicts have been named for kings, queens, dogs, pigs, flagpoles, ears, pastries,…
The ‘Cargo Cult’ — How WWII Spawned a Bizarre America-Worshiping Religion on a Remote South Pacific Island
“Known among anthropologists as a “cargo cult,” the movement got its start when the first engineers arrived on the island to build a military airstrip.” THE Second World War led to a number of major…
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army — Inside One of WW2’s Strangest Resistance Movements
“The group was one of the Second World War’s most peculiar resistance movements in that it received no support from the Allies and battled both Soviets and Nazis alike.” THINGS ARE HEATING UP IN UKRAINE. With…
Filmmaker Races The Clock to Document Stories of Axis POWs in Wartime America
When filmmaker Gregory “Scott” Porter first learned that German prisoners of war were held in America during the Second World War, he was speechless. “My grandmother told me an incredible story about how she had…
