Chernobog and Belobog may have been nothing more than the idea of good and bad luck. Source: Maxim Sukharev (Максим Сухарев) / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Chernobog and Belobog, the Slavic Gods who Don’t Exist?

There are many forgotten gods in the world. Though the great pantheons of history endure along the crumbling ruins of the empires that spawned them, there are many lesser deities who run the risk of being forgotten entirely. Many pantheons as rich and varied as those of Egypt, Greece or Rome have already been half

Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism in Das Kapital is one of the most influential texts in the entirety of human history. Source: Ürfan1917 / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Das Kapital: What Did Marx Actually Have to Say?

Politics in the modern world is increasingly divisive. In the US political system labels matter, and it can be the death knell for a political career to be called “socialist” in reference to your ideas. Putting aside the fact that all federal and state-wide policies are by definition socialist, funded centrally from tax revenues, there

A rare and unrestored surviving example of the tiny and insanely dangerous Me 163 Komet. Source: HawkeyeUK / CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Komet: The Most Dangerous Warplane Ever Built?

World War Two was the driving force for military innovation in the 20th century. The Cold War and its hot counterparts in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan may have had their own moments but nothing compares to the wild experimentation of WW2, particularly from the Axis powers. World War Two was also special for another reason,

Barely able to hit a city: all the places where the Paris Gun struck, with the black line showing the direction of attack (Catsmeat / CC BY-SA 4.0)

Fire from the Sky: The Terror of the Paris Gun

On the 23rd March 1918 at 7.18 in the morning the city of Paris was rocked by a sudden, unexpected explosion on the Quai de la Seine. The blast came without warning, and many thought the initial explosion to be some kind of accident, a gas leak or something of that kind. However as the

Used toilet paper was stored in bins outside military latrines, which was fine until you had no toilet paper and started using sensitive documents. Operation Tamarisk had the dirty job of retrieving these. Source: SuSanA Secretariat / CC BY 2.0.

Operation Tamarisk: You Flush It, We Flaunt It

The 20th century saw the concept of warfare evolve to a horrifying new level. With the advent of globalization, automation and mechanization the art of war was refined to an almost obsessive extent, and perpetual warfare on a global scale became the new normal. Alongside the two World Wars and the two decades the US

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