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Swamp People: 'One Man Army'
A long tunnel leading into the Newgrange. On the left, a spiral pattern depicted on the rocks outside

The mystery of Newgrange: Ireland's megalithic marvel
Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, by Georg von Rosen | Public Domain | Wikipedia

How the Vikings gave us Christmas
Water fountain with a bust of Michel de Nostradame or Nostradamus

Nostradamus: Which of his predictions came true?

Forged In Fire: The ULTIMATE strength test
Nuremberg Trials. Defendants in their dock, circa 1945-1946, Herman Göring left | Wikipedia | Public Domain

Nuremberg: 'The greatest trial in history'
The USS Arizona

What if Japan never attacked Pearl Harbor?
 1944 Color portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt | FDR Presidential Library & Museum

Surprising family links of US Presidents
Accrington Pals by Tim Green | Flickr | Wikipedia | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license

The Pals battalions of World War I

The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain - Competition

The drinking session that led to Civil War
Italy Detachment 2nd SAS Regiment - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Italy_Detachment_2nd_SAS_Regiment.jpg

How did the SAS carry out its first postwar covert operations?
Engine room of an oil-burning German submarine

The U-Boat commander who almost killed Churchill
Rotating wheels on a cipher machine labelled with letters of the alphabet

The Polish cryptographers who cracked the Enigma code

What if JFK was never assassinated?
Mametz, Western Front, a winter scene, painting by Frank Crozier | Public Domain

Lesser known facts about The Battle of the Somme

How to Use Ancestry to Research Your International Family
Painting of the burial of The Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey

The secret mission to select the Unknown Warrior

Saddam Speaks in Court | Public Domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein#/media/File:Saddam_Hussein_at_trial,_July_2004.JPEG | P

Operation Red Dawn: The mission that snared Saddam Hussein
Prince Charles Edward Stuart. Eldest son of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart. Painted by William Mosman around 1730 | Public Domain

Bonnie Prince Charlie: Rebel prince

Edith Wilson

Edith Wilson: America's First (Acting) Female President
The Empire Windrush

The Empire Windrush: The story of the Caribbeans who came to Britain in 1948
A photograph of a traditional Japanese kitchen knife

Traditional Japanese knives and their uses
The coffin of the Unknown Warrior in state in the Abbey in 1920 | Wikipedia

‘Unknown by name or rank’: The grave of the Unknown Warrior
Justin Salinger plays Ulysses S. Grant in Grant

Interview with Justin Salinger, star of 'Grant'
The Oseberg ship at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway

History of the Oseberg Viking Burial Ship

A stock image of a mosaic of a woman

The Ivory Bangle Lady and the multi-culturalism of Roman Britain
Squadron Leader Douglas Bader, CO of No. 242 Squadron, seated on his Hawker Hurricane at Duxford, September 1940 | Public Domain

Douglas Bader: The double-amputee flying ace of the Battle of Britain
Harold Rex Interfectus Est | Bayeaux Tapestry | Public Domain

­­­­­­How the Battle of Hastings was won
A photograph of a person sharpening a traditional Gyuto knife using a whetstone

The history of Japanese knife making
Gandhi photographed as a young man in South Africa in 1909

Before he became Mahatma: Gandhi in South Africa
Ignatius Sancho, 1768 by Thomas Gainsborough

12 Black Britons who shaped history
Rick and Marty Lagina

The top 25 treasures discovered on Oak Island… So far
Hitler and Stalin

The lives of Hitler and Stalin: Two sides of the same coin

Grimsby-born Gary Drayton was a successful treasure hunter in his own right before joining Curse of Oak Island

What a 'Bobby Dazzler': Gary Drayton interview
Marty Lagina

Little known facts about the Lagina brothers