Though he was trained only as a cook, Ivan Pavlovich Sereda successfully blinded a Nazi tank and disabled its weapons before ...

1941: German engineer Konrad Zuse unveils the Z3, now generally recognized as the first fully functional, programmable computer. Complicating Zuse's claim of priority, an air raid destroyed his ...

It is, arguably, the saddest day in U.S. military history -- certainly in modern U.S. military history -- the Civil War's Battle of Gettysburg probably is the saddest. Sunday, December 7, 1941, a date ...

Imperial Japan launched a devastating Sunday morning surprise attack on the U.S. Navy and other military assets at Pearl Harbor, rousing a "sleeping giant" and thrusting an enraged America into World ...

In 1941 a B-25 Mitchell bomber contained 107,156 rivets, each one inserted by hand. Often a woman’s hand. That year, there were as many people on the left such as Lowell Thomas and Al Smith, who were ...

Namwene Mukabwa is a Collider author based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a penchant for Westerns, classics, historical, and underrated movies and television series. He became hooked on screens at the age ...

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Six of the more than 10,000 books published in the U.S. in 1941 stood out in high relief: Darkness at Noon ($2), Arthur Koestler’s coldly incandescent novel about the ultimate moral dilemma of Russian ...

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Take a closer look at the 1941 Packard 120 Convertible Coupe, with its top down and exterior details on display. Would you enjoy driving it? The backwards Social Security COLA rule that will probably ...