Richard Arvin Overton, 111 years old, is the oldest living World War II veteran in the United States Battlefields News Strangeness
Britain: The Principality of Sealand a pirate “micro-state” & band of Dutch & German mercenaries armed with assault rifles and charged the platform with a speedboat, jet skis, & helicopters Battlefields News Self-Propelled
Millie Dunn Veasey, one of the last members of the only all-black, all-women battalion to serve overseas in WWII, passes away at age 100 Lifestyle Battlefields Glamour
Seeking a better way to feed his troops, Napoleon launched a contest that changed the way people eat to this day Lifestyle Battlefields Strangeness
In 1941, Rudolf Hess flew to Scotland by himself and attempted to negotiate peace behind Hitler’s back News Battlefields
The creators of “Curious George” built bicycles to flee Paris as the German army closed in Strangeness Battlefields
Stalin’s daughter defected to U.S. in 1967, but returned to the Soviet Union in 1984 Strangeness Battlefields