The painting is called “Sub at Sea” by Adolf Bock. It is a u-boat in the Atlantic in WWII. U-boats like this one sank 175 warships and 2,825 merchant ships in the Battle of the Atlantic. The most successful u-boat commander was Otto Kretschmer who sank 47 ships in 15 Read more…
In his book Utopia, Thomas More wrote that before they married, couples should see each other naked so they would avoid disappointment. One day, a friend named Sir William Roper asked More for the hand of one of his daughters in marriage. When Roper mentioned More’s piece of advice about Read more…
In 1814, during the War of 1812, British Admiral Cockburn (yes, that was his name) was determined to embarrass the Americans by attacking their capital. He was also interested in revenge for the sack of York in Canada. He brushed aside a force of militiamen (with President Madison witnessing in Read more…
In 1632, Galileo published his Dialogue on Two Chief World Systems which supported the Copernican theory that the sun was the center of the Universe and the Earth moved around it. The book caught the attention of the Inquisition which summoned Galileo to Rome for trial. Under threat of torture, Read more…
This is a picture of the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. An American fleet led by Oliver Perry defeated a British fleet for control of the lake. It did not look good in the early part of the battle as his flagship the Lawrence (named after the captain Read more…
King John liked to sleep with any woman who he was attracted to. He fell in lust with the beautiful daughter of Robert Fitz-Walter, a prominent noble. Maud the Fair was not interested in his advances, so he had her kidnapped and placed in the White Tower in London. When Read more…
Teddy Roosevelt was scheduled to give a speech in Milwaukee during the 1912 campaign when he was shot when leaving his hotel to go to the venue. His speech was on fifty pages and they were folded in half. The bullet went through the speech, which was in his coat Read more…
John, besides being a rotten king, was a terrible human being. He attempted to sleep with any woman who caught his eye, even the wives of his nobles. Once while visiting the castle of Eustace de Vescy, he noticed that Eustace’s wife was beautiful and John decided he needed to Read more…
This is a picture of a bathing beauty from around 1900. Yes, that is what she swam in. Or rather waded in since few women knew how to swim back then. Note the amount of her body that is covered for modesty’s sake. This was the Victorian Age when people Read more…
Frederick the Great was known for the strict discipline in his army. When his army was on the march, he ordered that all fires and lights be extinguished by a certain hour. One night he was walking through his camp after the curfew and saw a light in a Read more…