Category: Battlefields

War Plan Red: In a hypothetical war between the United States and Britain approved in 1930, the first step was to attack Canada

Vinnie Ream won the competition to create a sculpture of Lincoln, but whispers and doubts shadowed her efforts at carving a “man of sorrow”

In WWII, Soviet partisans hid in the Odessa Catacombs, which stretch for thousands of miles below the city

War in the Bronze Age: A study of the oldest battlefield in Europe suggests 2,000 fighters

Britain: The Principality of Sealand a pirate “micro-state” & band of Dutch & German mercenaries armed with assault rifles and charged the platform with a speedboat, jet skis, & helicopters

Stalin’s daughter defected to U.S. in 1967, but returned to the Soviet Union in 1984

Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane: the fierce queen of San Francisco’s psychedelic scene wanted to drug Richard Nixon

Paul Newman almost died in action and other iconic Hollywood stars who served during WW2

Otto Skorzeny: The trusted Nazi SS commander and rescuer of Mussolini became a horse-breeder in Ireland

Chiune Sugihara, known as “the Japanese Schindler,” saved more than 10,000 lives in Lithuania

The creators of “Curious George” built bicycles to flee Paris as the German army closed in

Kilroy was here – mysterious WWII origins of the first viral graffiti meme