In July 1940, Hitler issued a directive formally launching Operation Sea Lion, Nazi Germany’s plan to invade and conquer Britain. Despite the fall of France, Britain, under its new Prime Minister Winston Churchill, showed no intention of surrendering. In a series of defiant speeches, Churchill rallied the British people, famously vowing that they would fight…
Reptiles are not only deadly and numerous, they are also #creatures who have some of the most bizarre behaviours in the world. Inhabiting every single land mass with the exception of Antarctica, #reptiles are everywhere. Reptiles are generally classified into four main groups; crocodiles and #alligators, #lizards, #snakes and #turtles and #tortoises. They are all…
In 1975, the #Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh fell to a rebel movement known as the Khmer Rouge. These #Marxist revolutionaries seized control of the country and unleashed a reign of terror rarely seen in modern history. Over the next four years, the regime, led by #dictator Pol Pot, was responsible for the deaths of…
Nancy Bird Walton was Australia’s #pioneering #femaleaviator and the youngest woman in the #British Empire to earn a commercial pilot’s licence at just 19. Her passion for flying sparked at age 13 during an unforgettable joyride in a #dehavilland Gipsy Moth piloted by Reg Annabel, a 1920s aviator. This thrill led her to take lessons…
In the late eighteenth century, the nations of Europe were plunged into the chaos and terror of a series of bloody revolutions. But England was spared. Not many people know the story of #JohnWesley, the man who saved #England. Today we often focus on economic and military power as the ways that we can save…
King #Solomon, of the royal House of David, is considered the #richest human being the world has ever known. For centuries, the legend of his #gold mines, said to be the source of much of his immense wealth, has captured the imagination of people from all nations and stations in life. According to the Bible,…
Step into one of the most volatile places on earth: the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Despite its name, the #DMZ is the most militarised border in the world, a tense strip of land dividing North and South Korea since the 1953 armistice. Technically still at war, the two nations face each other across a boundary where…
Karl Heinrich Marx was born on 5 May 1818, one of nine children of Heinrich and Henrietta Marx. The family lived in the Rhineland region of Prussia in western Germany. Although both parents came from Jewish families with notable rabbinical backgrounds, Marx’s father, who worked as a lawyer, converted to Christianity in order to continue…
Even today, new stories emerge about the Holocaust, and its unrelenting evil remains almost impossible to grasp, coldly calculated cruelty on an unimaginable scale. Perhaps the hardest part to comprehend is that, for the Nazis, being Jewish alone was a death sentence. Children of any age were not spared. Historians estimate that 1.5 million children,…
World War II, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history, began on September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Adolf Hitler dreamed of uniting Europe and establishing an empire that would rule the world for a thousand years. Yet he could have spared himself and his people immense suffering if he had only…
Arlington National Cemetery is one of the most well-known cemeteries in the world. It’s just outside Washington, DC. 400,000 military veterans and their families are buried there. The most famous tomb of all is also there, the tomb of The Unknown Soldier. Nobody knows this soldier’s identity. Do you sometime feel that nobody knows you…
Decades after the war, people from around the world still visit Auschwitz, a solemn place of remembrance for those who perished there. But imagine walking through it alongside the grandson of its ruthless commandant, Rudolf Höss. And what if your father was Martin Bormann, one of Hitler’s closest confidants and a key architect of the…
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