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This Signature Shows What Torture Did To Guy Fawkes
Today is Guy Fawkes Day, a day where the U.K. celebrates the foiling of a plot to kill King James I in 1605. The country celebrates this by lighting fireworks and, in a morbid twist, burning an effigy...
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How An American Pilot Survived A 6-On-One Dogfight During The Vietnam War
A true milestone in the progress of naval aviation, the Vought F-8 has been one of the few carrier-based fighters that could outperform its land-based counterparts.Being the first genuinely supersonic...
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Russia Is Fighting An Information War Over The History Of The Soviet Union
As the director of this country’s oldest museum of political repression, Vasiliy Khanevich spends his days inside a musty Siberian basement some 2,000 miles east of Moscow, surrounded by photographs of...
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The Entire History Of The Cold War— In 40 Quotes
On Monday, I posted my nominees for ten Cold War histories worth reading.But many people don’t have the time or patience to plow through comprehensive histories.So for The Water's Edge readers looking...
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Here's Just How Crazy Things Got On The Night The Berlin Wall Came Down
In this excerpt from The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, Frederick Taylor, a German historian, describes the moments leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall by weaving together history, archival...
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Here's What The Berlin Wall Looked Like In 1961, The Year It Was Built
RFE/RL archival photos of the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. All of the photographs in this slide show were all culled from the RFE/RL archives at the Hoover Institution at Stanford...
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How A Populous Middle Eastern Country Is Undergoing A 'Centuries-Old Method...
The beginning of November saw Sana's airport, government buildings, universities, and even major city intersections firmly under the control of the anti-government Houthi movement.Since the 1990s, the...
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Israel's Nuclear Arsenal Might Be Smaller And More Strategic Than Everyone...
For decades, Israel has maintained a strict policy of opacity surrounding its nuclear arsenal. The country possesses some of the most powerful weaponry on earth, along with delivery systems that give...
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Why The US Needs To Learn The Counterinsurgency Lessons Of The Vietnam War
Over the decades that have passed since the Vietnam War, there has been a growing movement to turn that history into a more comforting narrative.The revisionist histories come in different versions,...
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REVEALED: FBI Allegedly Tried To Persuade MLK To Kill Himself Over Threatened...
Nearly 50 years ago, the FBI sent civil Martin Luther King, Jr. a letter threatening to make public sordid details of his sex life if the civil rights icon failed to do the "one thing left for you to...
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It Might Be Foolish For ISIS To Attempt To Take Baghdad, But Here's Why...
The Islamic State claims to have reestablished a caliphate in accordance with the prophetic method, misleading at least one historian, Edward Luttwak, to conclude that the Islamic State only seeks “its...
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HISTORIAN: Obama Is In Way Over His Head
If George W. Bush's foreign policy was a testament to the perils of overreaction, Barack Obama's foreign policy is becoming, to many experts, a testament to the dangers of underreaction.On the matter...
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In 1958, America Accidentally Dropped A Nuclear Bomb On South Carolina
In the history of terrible mistakes, accidentally dropping a nuclear bomb on your own country has to rank pretty damn high. That's exactly what happened when a really, really stupid accident resulted...
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Former Afghan President Blasts The US As A Weapon-Toting 'Bully'
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has shed some light on his administration's troubled relationship with Washington, describing his country as a young boy pitted against a muscular, weapon-toting...
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Japan’s War Hawks And Imperial Apologists Are Antagonizing Everyone
Japan's war hawks and imperial apologists are alienating the country’s allies and making a confrontation with its rivals more likely.For four brutal years in the mid-20th century, the United States and...
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Apple's Living Cofounders Reminisce About Its First Computer (AAPL)
The iPhone 6 isn't the only Apple hardware in high demand.The company's first computers have become collectors' items in recent years. An Apple I computer thought to be one of the first ever made sold...
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A Russian Archaeologist Believes This Is The Sword Of Ivan The Terrible
The only medieval sword found in Siberia may have belonged to legendary Russian ruler Ivan the Terrible.Russian archaeologist Vyacheslav Molodin has called on European experts to help him validate his...
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Here's How Thanksgiving Costs Have Changed Over 100 Years
The average Thanksgiving Day dinner this year will cost $49.41, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.Each year, the American Farm Bureau Federation estimates the cost of Thanksgiving around...
View Article7 Crazy Facts That Sound Fake But Are Actually True
A recent Quora post prompted the question, "What are some of the most mind-blowing facts that sound like 'BS', but are actually true?"They might be hard to believe, but these facts about geography,...
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The Creepy Story Of A Book Bound In The Human Skin Of A Serial Killer
It is hot and muggy in the upstairs gallery of Surgeons' Hall in Edinburgh. I walk past shelves upon shelves of jars that contain 18th-century specimens suspended in liquid: an amputated arm here, a...
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