On 1st February 1959, nine Russian hikers on the trek of a lifetime through the Ural Mountains pitched a tent and settled in for the night. Hours later, all nine fled the safety of the tent and ...
Adolf Hitler leaned forward to read the inscription on the Alsace-Lorraine monument. 'Here on the eleventh of November 1918 succumbed the criminal pride of the German empire,' the inscription read, ...
Today, the word ‘terrible’ can be used to describe anything from a particularly bad meal to a natural disaster that kills millions of people. Back in the 16th Century when it was a nickname bestowed ...