The Mongol invasion of Japan wasn’t deterred by the Samurai — it was deterred by the weather — When you hear the word Kamikaze, you think about Japanese suicide bombers during World War II. Kamikaze bombers flew their planes into enemy bases and ships, sacrificing their own lives in the process. According to the National Geographic, the Japanese Empire started deploying Kamikaze bombers in the latter stages of…

We want a clear hero and villain in the West — and this conflict is anything but — At the 2022 Track and Field World Championships, an Ethiopian man named Mearg Mekonnen jumped over the stands and past security. His fellow compatriot, Gudaf Tsegay, just won the gold medal in the women’s 5,000 meters, and he ran on the track to congratulate her and the fifth-place Ethiopian finisher…

It’s the Atlantis of Russia, and the sunken city has never been found since — Atlantis is a mythical island that sank into the ocean. It’s been the subject of a Disney movie, and is well known because of its mentions in Plato’s Timaeus and Critias. It was a powerful kingdom protected by Poseidon in ancient times that some historians think is linked to a…

He sucked blood out of Temujin’s neck after he suffered an arrow wound — Genghis Khan is one of the most notorious emperors and warlords in human history. He presided over the expansion of the Mongol Empire into the largest empire in all of Eurasia, conquering land throughout modern-day Russia, China, and the Middle East with sheer terror and brutality. But what most people…

The story of Hatuey, who said he’d rather burn in hell than go to Heaven with the Europeans — The Taino indigenous people are known as the first Native Americans Christopher Columbus encountered when he came to the New World. According to Robert Poole at the Smithsonian Magazine, the Taino were also the originators of the words canoe, hammock, barbecue, tobacco, and hurricane. Of course, as many people know…

“He was a moderate to moderates, a conservative to conservatives, and a liberal to liberals.” — “You won’t like my campaign, but you will like my administration,” Jimmy Carter told Vernon Jordan, a Black Atlanta lawyer, in 1970. Right now, President Joe Biden is seeing his approval rating plummet. A New York Times/Siena College poll shows Biden has only a 33% approval rating, with voters souring…

Essie Mae Washington-Williams loved her extremely problematic father, Strom Thurmond — “History is complex, and mine is as complex as it gets” — Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the biracial daughter of Strom Thurmond Strom Thurmond is known for a lot of things. But few of those things age particularly well in the 21st century, particularly his fierce advocacy of white supremacy, segregation…

Pennsylvania was known for being racially tolerant before Zachariah Walker’s horrific death — “For God’s sake, give a man a chance! I killed Rice in self-defense. Don’t give me no crooked death because I’m not white!” Zachariah Walker said before he was killed. Essie Mae Washington-Williams had a very difficult lineage. She was daughter of a Black maid in the South, but she…