Month: March 2014
On the Brink – Five International Crises That Nearly Led To Nuclear War
“A number of emergencies, communication errors and computer glitches have very nearly precipitated nuclear war.” ON MORE THAN one occasion over the past 50 years, the world’s super powers have nearly ended all life on this planet….
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,…
In Frum We Trust – The Outlandish Cargo Cult of World War Two
The Second World War led to a number of major breakthroughs and developments. Consider atomic energy, penicillin, radar, jet aircraft, computers and the United Nations. But the conflict also spawned at least one new religion: The…
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…
