Category: Odd Facts
Big Apple Secessionists? — New York City’s Forgotten Pro-Confederates
“Some Copperheads even pushed for New York to itself withdraw from the Union, declare the city neutral and continue to trade with the Confederacy.” IN 1860, New York City was the commercial, cultural and industrial…
The Tornado That Saved America
As the residents of Moore, Oklahoma recover from the deadly mile-wide twister that tore through the small community Monday afternoon, one is reminded of how at least one tornado might have actually saved the United…
The Cold War Heats Up — New Documents Reveal the “Able Archer” War Scare of 1983
Two years before the rise to power of Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and six years prior the fall of the Berlin Wall, relations between Washington and Moscow were as brittle as ever. Following an era…
The 14th Colony — Vermont’s Curious Role in the American Revolution
ON JULY 4, 1776, 13 of GREAT BRITAIN’S North American colonies declared their independence. And while New York, Massachusetts, Virginia and a host of others joined in that rebellion, one future U.S. state was…
Psych Ops — Meet the Top Secret “Ghost Army” of WW2
On April 1, we told you about some of the most famous wartime deceptions in history from the legendary Trojan horse to dummy cannons called Quaker guns. What we didn’t tell you about was the…
What Lies Beneath — Is a Strange Object on the Bottom of a Canadian Lake Really a WW2 U-boat?
“Many from Labrador maintain that the recently discovered object is a Nazi sub that, according to local folklore, slipped into the inlet during the early 1940s and was somehow lost.” THERE’S SOMETHING large and mysterious…
