180 years ago, the Americans invaded Mexico. As a result, Mexico lost New Mexico and Alta California and acknowledged the loss of Texas, more than half of its territory.

So, the war with the Ottoman Porte began, but the balance of power could not inspire optimism in the leadership of the Russian Empire....

On December 27, 1939, at the Rostock airfield, test pilot Erich Warsatz took off in a strange, propeller-less machine. It was the He-178, the world's first jet aircraft.

December 1941, a village near Moscow, a legless fighter pilot, and ten boys with captured rifles. Let's break down what's true and what's myth in this story.

The Russian Navy under the reigns of three Russian empresses. The creation of the Black Sea Fleet, Ushakov's resounding victories...

In 1946–1947, a series of mysterious explosions occurred on ships belonging to Dalstroy, the Far Eastern Shipping Company, and a number of coastal facilities.

Translation of an editorial published in the Pakistani newspaper Daily Times, with comments from the translator....

Over the course of thirteen months—from September 1943 to October 1944—the Third Reich applied the same scenario to its own allies four times. It worked three out of four times...

190 years since the Battle of San Jacinto and Texas's independence from Mexico. The American-led Texas Revolution led to the creation of the Republic of Texas, which was later absorbed into the United States.

During World War II, Brazil teetered between neutrality, internal tensions, and external threats. At the center of this struggle was the authoritarian leader Getúlio Vargas, who came to power in...

In Rus', school was born at the lectern and began speaking at the marketplace. Novgorod made literacy commonplace, but its "mass appeal" proved local. Without myths or pathos—about how liturgy and the city forged a common...

340 years ago, the "Eternal Peace" was signed between Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ending the 13-year Russo-Polish War. The Poles recognized Moscow's control of the Left Bank of the Dnieper, Kyiv, and the Zaporizhian Sich.

In 1894, the third Chancellor of the German Empire was H. Hohenlohe, a 75-year-old Bavarian aristocrat who effectively handed over the reins of foreign policy to the Kaiser, who developed a turbulent...

Seventy years of Sino-Soviet rivalry have left behind a dozen persistent myths, from stars carved into the bodies of border guards to selfless Soviet aid and the decisive role of nuclear...

Recent scientific research by numerous authors demonstrates the inadequacy of the official version of the Chernobyl accident, which boils down to a "terminal effect." So what are they trying to hide from us?

From the Assembly of Eamont in 927 to the partition of Ireland in 1922 – a thousand years of unification, each of which was not a design, but a reaction to crisis...

The navy of Peter the Great: initial setbacks followed by resounding victories. The navy's decline under Catherine I and Peter II...

Six days of fighting in central Dublin ended in defeat for the rebels. Executions and military justice turned this defeat into a turning point in Irish politics...

230 years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian army routed the Austro-Sardinian forces and eliminated the Kingdom of Sardinia from the war. The Austrians were left without their main ally in Italy.

Technology wars are among the most intense and, paradoxically, the most productive. There's an episode in the history of the Cold War that closely linked Japanese greed, American injustice, and...

85 years ago, the Wehrmacht routed the Greek army. King George II and the Greek government, along with the remnants of Greek and British troops, fled to Crete and Egypt. Greece fell in 24 days.

Each group of ships and boats operated in its own zone, which was tied to a specific border outpost with which the group worked closely....

The myth of "machine guns in the back" crumbles in the face of front-line reports from 1942: the figures show filtration and return to duty, not mass reprisals...

For decades, North Korea supported African countries fighting for independence through economic support, training, and arms supplies. And in January 1977...