History

Born in 1892, Selassie reigned over Ethiopia from 1930 through 1974. History recognizes Selassie as an enlightened reformer. Like all public figures, however, his actual legacy was mixed. While lauded for such stuff as a new freedom-centric Constitution in 1931 and the abolition of slavery eleven years later, he was nonetheless still criticized for the repression of human rights.

In 1972, Flynt published the first issue of the Hustler Newsletter. This two-page, black-and-white souped-up leaflet orbited around his Hustler Clubs. The Hustler Newsletter was so popular that he expanded it to 16 pages and then later to 32.

From Hiroshima’s first operational strike to the Demon Core’s deadly lessons, this is how nukes, missteps, and raw physics still terrify a very modern world.

Fighter pilots are invariably obnoxious extroverts. I’ve known a few. The profession selects for those particular character traits. They honestly earn that. When your job is to climb all by your lonesome into a machine filled with kerosene that will propel you faster than some bullets so you can go

The 1911 Siege of Sidney Street: a deadly London gunfight where Churchill deployed troops against anarchists.

Israel invades Gaza in response to one of the most egregious terrorist attacks in modern history, and the world had a conniption over it. Putin has snuffed as many as 400,000 lives in his ill-conceived invasion of Ukraine, and college students aren’t making a peep about that.

In a ballistic reenactment, Herrera manages to duplicate a similar ricochet effect into a ballistic dummy, demonstrating how the small .22 LR round could follow an unpredictable path through soft tissue after deflection.

Discover how Israel weaponized pagers and radios to take out hundreds of Hezbollah fighters in one of Mossad’s boldest covert ops.

The 2003 Bixby standoff in Abbeville, SC, left two officers dead and exposed the dangers of sovereign citizen extremism.