Oliver Cromwell led the Parliamentarian forces to victory in the English Civil War. As a result, King Charles I was beheaded on Jan. 30, 1649. Cromwell became ruler of England and was proclaimed Lord Protector in 1653. This was ironic Read more
Simon was a black and white cat found in the dockyards of Hong Kong in 1848 by a 17-year old British sailor named George Hickinbottom. He was a crewman on the frigate Read more
Do nonviolent protests work, even in a fascist country? A protest in 1943 Nazi Germany did work despite it butting heads with the SS. In Hitler’s Germany, being Jewish was often a death sentence. Read more
Once upon a time, during the Crimean War, the British army participated in the Siege of Sevastopol in Russia. It took two years for the city to fall and by the end people were starving. When British soldiers entered Read more
Sir Francis Bacon was one of the greatest scientific minds of the 17th Century. He encouraged the use of the scientific method which calls for experimentation and observation to reach a conclusion. He was one of the leaders of the Read more
Marcus Crassus became the richest man in Rome partly through real estate. He created the first fire department in Rome. Sometimes he paid arsonists to set fire to a house and then he would wait around the corner with Read more
Once upon a time, a mummified cat was found between two walls in the Reformed Protestant church called Grote Kerk in Breda, Netherlands. It was determined that the cat most likely was what was called a “foundation sacrifice” or a Read more
Attempts to identify soldiers go back to ancient warfare. Some Spartan warriors put their names on sticks which were tied to their wrist. After a Roman legionary was enrolled, he was given a Read more
Cats do not really have nine lives, but there once was a cat that had four. Oscar was a black and white feline who patriotically went to war for Germany in WWI. She was on board the mighty battleship Read more