Matthew Webb was the first recorded person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aids for sport purpose Strangeness
During the English Civil War, Lady Mary Bankes defended a castle from over 200 attackers with only five men under her initial command Abandoned Spaces Strangeness
Canary Girls- The poignant story of the Munitionettes and how the poisons of WWI turned them yellow Strangeness
Investigative photos of Lewis Hine were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States Strangeness
In the late 1700s, a King of India developed rocket artillery that fired swords in order to fight the British Strangeness
Nazi general who was responsible for the Wola massacre of 40,000 was pardoned by West Germany because “genocide was not in the criminal code of Nazi Germany” Strangeness
M.A.S.H. Suicide Is Painless the 15-year-old who co-wrote it made more money ($1 million) than the film’s director Strangeness