This is a Tintype photo from around 1860 to 1870 time period. I don't know what country this comes from. The photo was discovered in the United States with a group of pictures tracing a German Surname. The person in the photo is wearing a pickelhaube (spiked helmet) and has is holding a rifle wi...

I am searching some books or text where i can find a complete survey of the battles of the pacific. Is there any valuable text where can be found a great storytelling (not just a list of events) with interesting curiosities like the suicide cliff in Saipan and the war against Japan?

I read in an unrelated but generally reliable book that in one national election in Germany in the early 1930s or late 1920s, the results were in by 3:00 a.m. the next morning. When you think of it, vote counting is a task that is relatively simple and can easily be parallelized. Adding the indiv...

All I have ever learned about this is summed up pretty concisely here: Africans played a direct role in the slave trade, kidnapping adults and stealing children for the purpose of selling them, through intermediaries, to Europeans or their agents.[24] Those sold into slavery were usually from a ...

Until recently, people didn’t often travel very far, and when they did, they traveled slowly, taking days to cross multiple time zones. The phrase obviously arose from the age of fast air travel becoming popular, but presumably before this others had experienced crossing time zones and being out ...