Prince Harry Makes Surprise Appearance On The BBC To Pay Tribute To Veterans

Prince Harry Makes Surprise Appearance On The BBC To Pay Tribute To Veterans

Prince Harry‘s face has not been seen in the U.K. for months. On Monday evening, though, the former royal took part in a BBC broadcast that was designed to highlight efforts being made to support injured veterans, People reports. Harry was speaking live from his home in Los Angeles and brought together two sets of […]

‘Dangerously Uninformed’ Donald Trump Did Not Know What Happened At Pearl Harbor, Authors Of New Book Report

‘Dangerously Uninformed’ Donald Trump Did Not Know What Happened At Pearl Harbor, Authors Of New Book Report

When Donald Trump visited the Pearl Harbor Memorial in November, 2017, he asked his then-Chief of Staff John Kelly, “What’s this all about? What’s this a tour of?” In fact, Trump knew the name “Pearl Harbor,” but seemed ignorant regarding what had happened there. He did not appear to know that the memorial commemorated the […]

13,000 People Evacuate German City After ‘Unexploded’ World War II Bombs Discovered

13,000 People Evacuate German City After ‘Unexploded’ World War II Bombs Discovered

Mass evacuations are hitting the city of Dortmund in Germany after a number of unexploded bombs were discovered in four locations throughout the city. Experts believe that the bombs, which were described as “unexploded,” were originally dropped during the Allied invasion of Germany during World War II. According to The Daily Mail, Dortmund city hall […]

Awkward Videos Show Donald Trump Having Trouble Reading Teleprompter In Veterans Day ‘Something Speech’

Awkward Videos Show Donald Trump Having Trouble Reading Teleprompter In Veterans Day ‘Something Speech’

Donald Trump gave a speech annual New York City Veterans Day parade on Monday which was met with loud protests and angry exchanges between the president’s supporters and opponents, as The Independent reported. But it was the mispronunciation and slurring of words during the president’s outdoor address in a heavily-guarded Madison Square Park that sparked […]

Donald Trump Cancels Trip To Poland After He Had Already Shortened It Twice

Donald Trump Cancels Trip To Poland After He Had Already Shortened It Twice

The White House announced on Thursday afternoon that President Donald Trump would not travel as planned to Poland, sending instead Vice President Mike Pence, following reports that Hurricane Dorian is heading toward the United States. The trip to the Central European country was planned to allow the president to participate in a World War II […]

Donald Trump Signs D-Day Proclamation In The Oddest Possible Place

Donald Trump Signs D-Day Proclamation In The Oddest Possible Place

President Donald Trump’s notoriously bold signature has exploded on social media, not because of how it was written so much as where it was written, Business Insider reports. Trump was joined by other world leaders in observing the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion on Thursday, with each signing a proclamation vowing to always remember […]

Man Charged With Attempted Theft Of Part Of Auschwitz

Man Charged With Attempted Theft Of Part Of Auschwitz

An American tourist visiting the internationally infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp has been charged with attempted theft, officials from the site said Sunday, according to The Associated Press. The man allegedly attempted to steal part of the historic train tracks where prisoners were unloaded upon arrival to the camp. The man, who is 37-years-old, and whose […]

Auschwitz Forced To Ask Visitors To Stop Posing For Selfies On Its Railway Tracks

Auschwitz Forced To Ask Visitors To Stop Posing For Selfies On Its Railway Tracks

It should be a fairly safe assumption to make that most everyone visiting the site of Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland would know the terrible history that encompasses the buildings and grounds there. From 1940 until the end of World War II in 1945, over 1.1. million people lost their lives in Auschwitz, making it […]

WWII ‘Kissing Sailor’ Dies At 95

WWII ‘Kissing Sailor’ Dies At 95

George Mendonsa, the U.S. Navy sailor immortalized in a photo kissing a woman during a celebration of the end of World War II, has died at age 95. TMZ reports that Mendonsa died Sunday after falling and suffering a seizure at an assisted living facility. He had been living at the facility with his wife […]

Audrey Hepburn Led A Secret Life As A World War II Resistance Fighter

Audrey Hepburn Led A Secret Life As A World War II Resistance Fighter

Glamorous actress Audrey Hepburn was a resistance fighter in World War II, Page Six is reporting. A new book by Robert Matzen titled Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II will chronicle her experiences growing up in a Nazi-occupied country. The book will be released in its entirety in April 2019. Hepburn was a […]

Joachim Ronneberg Dead At 99, Hero Of Telemark Leaves Legacy Of Nazi Resistance Behind

Joachim Ronneberg Dead At 99, Hero Of Telemark Leaves Legacy Of Nazi Resistance Behind

Norway’s Joachim Ronneberg, who led a daring covert operation to destroy a Nazi nuclear arms factory during World War II, died on Sunday at age 99, according to The Guardian. Ronneberg was a 23-year-old agent of Britain’s Special Operations Executive agent during World War II. The SOE was Britain’s intelligence and sabotage agency during the […]

Freddie Oversteegen, Who As Teenager Lured Nazis Into A Forest To Make Out Then Had Them Killed, Dies At 92

Freddie Oversteegen, Who As Teenager Lured Nazis Into A Forest To Make Out Then Had Them Killed, Dies At 92

Freddie Oversteegen, a true World War II hero, passed away on September 5, one day short of her 93rd birthday, reports the IJmuider Courant. Oversteegen was part of the Dutch Resistance and lured Nazis into the woods under false pretenses. The men thought that they had struck it lucky and that they would soon be […]

Rowlett, Texas, Sees Evacuations And Road Closures After WWII-Era Bomb Discovered

Rowlett, Texas, Sees Evacuations And Road Closures After WWII-Era Bomb Discovered

Rowlett, Texas, in suburban Dallas, is under partial evacuation after an un-detonated World War II bomb was found in the city, WFAA-TV is reporting. At 11:11 a.m. local time, the city of Rowlett tweeted that a bomb had been found in the city, and that evacuation orders were in place. “A World War II mortar […]

London City Airport Shut Down After 1,100-Pound World War II Bomb Was Discovered Nearby

London City Airport Shut Down After 1,100-Pound World War II Bomb Was Discovered Nearby

An unexploded bomb, reportedly weighing more than 1,100 pounds, was recently discovered by workers who were excavating an area near the River Thames. The bomb itself was uncovered at the George V Dock on Sunday while laborers were beginning their pre-planned work just east of the London City Airport. Authorities immediately called for a 700-foot […]

The 90th Academy Awards : Oscars 2018

The 90th Academy Awards : Oscars 2018

Let’s start with Best Picture, according to The Academy official rules, when voting takes place, the voter must take into consideration “the effectiveness, creative substance and relevance to the dramatic whole, and only as presented within the motion picture.” Typically, The Academy votes within their branch, directors vote in the best director category, actors vote […]

Kate Middleton & Prince William Shattered While Walking Path Once Used By Hundreds Of Nazi Camp Victims

Kate Middleton & Prince William Shattered While Walking Path Once Used By Hundreds Of Nazi Camp Victims

On their first royal tour as a family, the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge visited the Stutthof Concentration Camp during the second day of their Poland visit. Kate Middleton and Prince William visited the former Stutthof camp in northern Poland, where 65,000 people are estimated to have died during Germany’s occupation during World War […]

‘Comfort Women’ Provide No Comfort To Japan As Hong Kong Refuses To Take Down The Sex Slave Statues

‘Comfort Women’ Provide No Comfort To Japan As Hong Kong Refuses To Take Down The Sex Slave Statues

The Hong Kong government has made it clear to Japan that the “comfort women” statues depicting the Japanese wartime sex slaves hoisted in front of the Japanese Consulate in the Chinese territory is there to stay. The fiber glass statues, each weighing 32 kilograms, were placed on the bridge near ­Exchange Square on the morning […]

Bataan Death March: The History You Need To Know

Bataan Death March: The History You Need To Know

Survivors of the Bataan Death March gathered in San Francisco to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the infamous event. The Saturday ceremony featured speeches from the survivors who shared their experience and offered a 21-gun battery salute to thousands of American and Filipino soldiers who lost their lives in the march. While people commemorate the […]

Hitler’s Nuclear Bomb: Docs Reveal Mushroom Cloud, Possible Nazi A-Bomb In 1944

Hitler’s Nuclear Bomb: Docs Reveal Mushroom Cloud, Possible Nazi A-Bomb In 1944

Declassified documents have come to light that show that Adolf Hitler and the scientists working on a German atomic bomb may have come closer to developing a workable nuclear weapon than had been previously thought. In fact, credible eyewitnesses say they saw a mushroom cloud rise over northern Germany in 1944 that very well could […]

Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown Mom: World News Watched Her Royal Parenting

Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown Mom: World News Watched Her Royal Parenting

When Queen Elizabeth II became the official crown royal, she was already a mother of two children, and would have two more after she ascended the throne. Of course, at the age of 26, when Queen Elizabeth took the crown, the world was watching her in the post-world War II era. For this reason, when […]

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