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…
Centuries of Bloodshed — Chechnya’s Long History of Unrest
FOLLOWING FRIDAY’S revelation that the perpetrators of last week’s Boston Marathon bombings originally hailed from Chechnya, the media has been serving up something of a refresher course on the troubled republic, which sits on Russia’s southern…
They Might Be Giants – Conquerors Who Earned The Nickname “The Great”
What do Frederick II of Prussia, the Frankish monarch Charles I, Emperor Constantine I of Rome, and Catherine II of Russia all have in common? Plenty, it turns out. All presided over huge triumphant armies….
Captain Jack Perkins – The First Black Skipper in the Royal Navy
On Sept. 6, 1800, the British frigate HMS Meleager of the Royal Navy’s Jamaica Station piped aboard its new skipper, John “Jack” Perkins. By the time of his promotion to post captain of the 32-gun…
Venezuela on the Brink – Dictator Draws Fire From World Powers (and no, we’re not talking about Hugo Chavez)
“While at the time Berlin and London were slowly drifting to war, the estranged powers, along with Italy, did manage to find a common enemy in Cipriano Castro.” LAST MONTH, Venezuelans bid farewell to Hugo…
