Historical Facts

Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. The Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change. With her death, her eldest son Charles, the former Prince of Wales,...

The aggressive take-off profile of the Soviet TU-144 supersonic passenger airplane (right) vs. the French-British Concorde (left).At its peak, the Anglo-French Concorde was the epitome of technological prowess and super sleek design in 20th-century aviati...

As the powers of Europe began to grow and expand throughout the world’s history, colonialism became the forefront of this expansion. Over time, almost every non-European nation became a colony of one European nation or another at some point.Only a few cou...

In the early hours of May 25, 1944, hundreds of Waffen-SS paratroopers dropped into Josip Broz Tito’s headquarters with the support of Luftwaffe airstrikes. ...

The British Empire: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Details of The World's Largest Empire

A century and a half ago, Russia lost a war it might have expected to win. The consequences reached far and wide

Do you know the real reason the ancient Egyptians went extinct?

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The Chief of Staff to then President George W Bush speaks to Sky News on his thoughts ahead of 9/11 on those moments where he whispered the news of the second plane hitting the tower inside the classroom in a Florida school. He told Sky's Greg Milam that...

Behind the scenes and the song "We are the world" I'm not the owner of this video. In my opinion, this video is very thrilling. Sorry for my English if i got any mistake. Enjoy the video.

Here is everything you need to know about The Beatles. It's a "brief" documentary about the biggest band of all time. Produced and written by Matt Beat.

The Original 1984 Macintosh Introduction: the magic moment, when Steve Jobs unveils the Macintosh and releases it from its bag. We've found these historical ...

Dispel myths and garner new insights into the Titanic with archive footage and interviews from real survivors.

Nothing was too big in scale or too implausible in execution for what the Fuhrer dreamt up, whatever the scheme that caught his feverish fancy. For a vast empire, you need a vast transport solution. The Breitspurbahn, which translates from the German as b...

In 1942, the unthinkable happened. This “help wanted” ad appeared in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: “Looking for Women Math Majors.” The ad was placed by the US Army, which was hiring women to work at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, at the...

On May 7, 2000, President Vladimir Putin took the oath of office in Russia’s first democratic transfer of power. Vladimir Putin took the oath of office, becoming Russia's second democratically elected president at a lavish ceremony in a former czarist thr...