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Explorers of the world have always fascinated me. When I was a little kid I was really into the history of the exploration of America, Australia, India, and the North Pole. Vasco da Gama explored Africa while he was looking for a new way to Southeast Asia. Other people like the Dutch explorer Willem Barend […]
The story about this woman will give you chills for life. One of the war stories that fascinated me when I was younger was the story of Ilse Koch or the “Das Biest von Buchenwald”. That’s not because it’s a particular “fun” story or anything but mainly because it’s terrifying and it gives you chills when […]
When I was a kid, I had this recurring dream about the Headless Horseman. He would take me on his horse through my neighborhood. In the years after that, the dream faded away, and kept wondering where that dream might come from — I had never seen any kind of movie or read a book about this […]
Over 215 children were found buried in a Canadian residential school in British Columbia. This recent event reminded the whole country of the most shameful chapter in its history. These children were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School founded in 1890 by the Roman Catholic Church and closed in 1978. Rosanne Casimir, who is […]
I don’t think I have to tell you that there’s something going on in the world. In 2020 a terrible pandemic broke out around the world. Millions of people were forced to sit at home, being scared and at risk of losing their jobs. Not only in the United States, but also in the rest […]
The Roman Empire makes up a big part of our history books. One of the most distinctive periods in our history. Next to World War II and the modern era, perhaps the most talked about. Still so close to prehistory yet already such great wisdom and inventions were discovered in civilization. Many famous philosophers flowed […]
A remarkable story about the man that was protected by the one that hated Jews Hitler absolutely was disgusted by the Jews. We know that right? There are all sorts of theories going around about the origins of Hitler’s anti-Semitic views and his hatred of Jews. But we don’t know for sure. Many people think that […]
On the 10th of July, the town of Oradour-Sur-Glane witnessed the most terrifying and horrible event of their history. The town in the center of France was destroyed by the Nazi Waffen-SS. The Germans were controlling that region at the time of the war and were brutally exploiting the civilians of southern France. Almost all […]
In the 16–17th century, the Netherlands, or the low countries called at that time was under the rule of the Spanish King Philip II, he was the king of the Spanish empire which at this time included large parts of Europe. Philip was very religious, and Catholic and required his people to be so. Other […]
In the year 356 BC, Alexander the Great was born in the then Macedonian town of Pella. He is considered one of the most successful warriors and leaders of the ancient world and perhaps even in complete history. He turned the small Macedonia where he had started into one of the greatest empires in the […]
