THE BATTLE OF ARNHEM
Hushed, anxious voices and the clattering of kit echoes around the old church at Oosterbeek, as the early morning light filters in…
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Abraham Lincoln (WHAT IF) (Part 2)
Andrew Johnson was eventually impeached by Congress had he lived, would Lincoln have faced a similar fate?I do not think it likel…
Abraham Lincoln (WHAT IF) (Part1)
What if Abraham Lincoln had nt been assassinated?Its a question that many historians and many writers have pondered over since t…
Emperor Meiji (Part 2)
As the young emperor was formally crowned in a grand ceremony, a name was given to the new era that his reign would usher in Meij…
Emperor Meiji (Part 1)
The year was 1852 and the once-grand emperors of Japan had become mere figureheads. They had no real power, for the true reign of …
TOMBSTONE (GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL)
The bustling new town of Tombstone, Arizona, was flooded with the sounds of gunfire for just 30 seconds on 26 October 1881 but …
WILFRED THESIGER (Exploring Arabia's Empty Quarter)
By the mid-20th century, with footprints left across even the most inhospitable polar regions, many people believed that there was…
Trafalgar (Nelson's Last Victory)
The battle plan that Nelson had formulated for Trafalgar was a simple one but it came at the end of a long and complicated campai…
History's Worst Jobs
RESURRECTIONIST:Body-snatching was a pursuit of early-modern anatomy students including Vesalius, the 16th-century father of mode…
ROSA PARKS (Part 2)
MY SOUL IS RESTEDParks was found guilty and Gray filed an appeal. at afternoon, the citys black leaders formed the Montgomery Imp…
