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Even at the distance of a century, no war seems more terrible than World War I. In the four years between 1914 and 1918, it killed or wounded more than 25 million people.

A brilliant mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer, Hypatia was one of the great thinkers of the ancient world (the only woman for whom such a claim can be made). image licence: Public Domain

On October 30, 1938, millions of New Yorkers supposedly had the shock of their lives, while listening to Orson Welles ' The War of the Worlds broadcast where he announced that the U.S. was being inva…

In 1937, comic acrobat Joseph Späh survived the Hindenburg airship disaster by jumping out of the window.

The first fatal car accident in the UK was caused by a driver going at 4 mph (6.5 kph).

During medieval times, very little was known about the human body and how it worked, because it was illegal to cut open a human body.

On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan’s surrender to the United States.

When we were in the water, we could hear people rushing about on the deck...