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Top 10 Notable Large Artillery Pieces

Author: Michel Manick | Great Rating | Under a dozen Comments

May

2011

If you look at the modern artillery that contemporary armies use today, you wouldn't believe how far they've truly come. Large artillery has existed in some shape or size for centuries. If you looked back to the medieval times, the heavy mortar cannons of their day were huge wooden catapults and trebuch... Read More

Criminal Animals - 10 Bizarre True Trials

Author: Jason Mueller | Good Rating | No Comments

Mar

2011

We love our animals. We love our doggies because they’re so cute! We love our kitties because they’re so sweet! All of this love and happiness between man and the creatures of the world may be welcome and enjoyed today but just a few hundred years (and in some cases much more recently) there has been bad blood be... Read More

10 Alternative Theories on Pre-Columbian America Discovery

Author: Jill Natalie | Great Rating | No Comments

Feb

2011

Where did the first “Americans” really come from? If you watch history programs on the television or browse the internet, you will soon find a multitude of theories as to why it was that when Christopher Columbus first “discovered” America, there were already different ethnicities there. Was it the result of nat... Read More

The 10 Less Known Homes of the Mona Lisa

Author: Tony Bravo | Great Rating | No Comments

Feb

2011

After exchanging hands many times, the Mona Lisa is back where she belongs in France's most famous museum, the Louvre. It is mounted on a wall with several other great works by various artists but if you ask anyone what paintings hung to the left or right of the Mona Lisa, they cannot tell you. They simply d... Read More

Top 10 Historic Victories Against All Odds

Author: Tony Bravo | Good Rating | No Comments

Jan

2011

Throughout History many battles were fought in the name of Conquest. Many were flawless victories to those posing the biggest armies; the sheer number of soldiers would force surrender on the opposing side less they were willing to face being slaughtered. There are however, exceptions to this rule. The following ... Read More

10 Chilling Ancient Medical Treatments

Author: Mike Brown | Great Rating | Under a dozen Comments

Jan

2011

It is amazing to me how much suffering people have endured in the name of furthering medical science. From the first Stone Age medicine man until now, trial and error and superstition has played such a major role in medicine that were it not for the last hundred years, we have probably killed much more than we ha... Read More

Top 10 Greatest World Explorers

Author: Bruno Torres | Good Rating | Under a dozen Comments

Jan

2011

The bravest of the brave are the men who sailed the uncharted waters of the open seas in the hopes of furthering the interests of Kings and countries. The best of these were from Portugal and Italy. Spain and England had an incredible sea-faring presence as well. Here are the discoverers of new worlds and new peo... Read More

10 Visionary Inventions by Leonardo da Vinci

Author: Tony Bravo | Great Rating | No Comments

Sep

2010

Leonardo de Vinci was a genius born before his time. He had a way of seeing everything connected rather than as different fields of science that enabled him to conceive of miraculous and wonderful inventions. Most of his ideas were written down and collected by him in notebooks. With over thirteen thousand pages ... Read More

Top 10 Historic Brutal Executions

Author: Tony Bravo | Great Rating | Under a dozen Comments

Aug

2010

Capital punishment has come a long way as far as our styles of execution. In most civilized countries, we have humanitarian ways to put criminals to death. Even in third world or semi civilized countries and kingdoms, beheading is pretty much the worst of it. We also hear of torture and humiliation techniques tha... Read More

10 American Cemeteries and Memorials in Europe

Author: Suzanne Smith | Good Rating | No Comments

Jul

2010

World War I and II orphaned children, widowed lonely wives, destroyed waiting sweetheart's hopes, burned empty holes in mother's hearts, and broke the spirit of many a father as the US fighting man fell on foreign battlefields. Yet, through all of the pain burns a pride and a passionate determination th... Read More

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