Running low on ammunition and facing a determined enemy in a built-up battlespace, Digby ordered a desperate bayonet charge.

This unassuming little stone bridge was the site of some of the fiercest combat of World War 2. Estimated reading time: 11 minutes The bridge is small and unassuming. In my part of the Deep South, it might be suitable to cross a small creek or generous drainage ditch. It is formed from meticulously cut [...]

One might think that heavily-armed soldiers would be immune to animal predation. However, nothing distracts a man like artillery and the prospect of being ripped to pieces by hot sleeting steel.

Certain dark days are burned into our national consciousness. For us, that day was obviously 9/11. On the morning of 7 October 2023, the nation of Israel had their own 9/11.

Stephanie Kwolek’s inventions have legitimately changed the world. It was obviously a pretty great thing that she never followed through on her plans for medical school.

The Twilight Zone really did make you think. Like most truly revolutionary artistic endeavors, the show was the product of a singularly creative mind. Rod Serling was a remarkable man indeed.

78 at the time of his death, Mahatma Gandhi was admittedly both old and thin. However, three of these underpowered little bullets fired from an assassin’s gun still nonetheless extinguished his mortal light in short order.

Violette Szabo was indeed a rare patriot. Her story of selfless sacrifice for the cause of freedom should inspire all of us today.

Reality is strange. The American Medical Association technically had its earliest origins in two physicians who tried mightily to snuff each other’s mortal flicker at the muzzle of a handgun.