Part Time Viking Stabs Girlfriend While Practising Battle Moves!
Viking fun? Benover, near Yalding is a picturesque low-lying village South West of the town of Maidstone in Kent, South East England. Once a proud…
The Most Lethal Fighting Unit of the Civil War
At approximately 4:00 PM, July 2, 1863 the great Confederate turning movement at Gettysburg, meant to roll-up the Federal line from left-to-right, finally stepped-off, General…
Officials Plead for Consumers to NOT Recycle Live Cannonballs
Workers at the Kent County Recycling Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, got a lot more than they bargained for when Civil War cannonballs was delivered…
Rediscovered Civil War Shipwreck Gains International Recognition
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (June 10, 2020) – As the United States battled its most divisive conflict at the height of the American Civil War, a cargo…
One of the Most Daring and Romantic Naval Feats of History
Rain began falling in sheets as the small steamer known as picketboat No. 1 puffed its way through the choppy surf toward the mouth of…
Prague Revamp Reveals Jewish Gravestones Used as Cobblestones
Redevelopment work being undertaken in Prague has revealed a gruesome secret. Many of the paving stones that have been listed have been found to have…
Police Swoop on a ‘Suspicious’ Medieval Swordsman…He Was Doing Daily Exercise
Police were called to a park at Hendre Lake in St. Mellons, Cardiff, Wales, UK. They had received a disturbing report of a medieval swordsman…
History Hack – Fantastic Podcasts Beating Lockdown Blues
Timing, as they say is everything. With everyone currently at home under confinement there has never been a better time to launch a series of…
Lightning Strikes Twice – American Hannibal of the Revolutionary War
It is dawn, August 2, 216 BC and lightning is about to strike the Roman Republic. On a ridge overlooking the expansive plain, Hannibal Barca…
Civil War Cannonball Exploded & Killed 140 Years After it Was Fired
Sam White was a dyed-in-the-wool Civil War fanatic. He was never happier than when he was searching for Civil War relics or restoring those that…
The Day the South Nearly Won the Civil War
It has become an accepted historical fact that the South could not have won the American Civil War. The North’s advantages in finance, population, railroads,…
Armed Police Called to Catch Gunman Turns Out to be a TV Show Extra
At 10:15pm, the Police in Plymouth on the south coast of Devon in England, were called by concerned members of the public when they saw…