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Pristine Civil War Cannons Removed From South Carolina's Pee Dee River

They've sat at the bottom of the South Carolina river ever since they were pushed overboard 150 years ago.

Disaster At Loos

Huge Bombardment Opens Fall Offensive

Prelude to Rebellion

10 Plans to Weaponize Animals

"Rats, explosive."

London Bombed, Lenin Calls for Revolution

New York Tribune via Chronicling America

Germany Backs Down, As Spy Scandals Erupt

George Pickow, Hulton Archive // Getty Images

Who's Buried in Westminster Abbey?

London's Westminster Abbey is not only a grand and glorious place of worship, but also the final resting place of hundreds of history's most famous figures.

A Defeat Foretold

A Sinister Influence

8 War Heroes That Were Real Animals

War heroes comes in all shapes and sizes—and species.

Stalemate At Suvla Bay

U.S. Occupies Haiti

British Defeat Turks at Nasiriya

U.S. Rejects German Stance on U-boat Warfare

Plotting Serbia’s Demise

Super Soakers: When the Dutch Used Floods as Weapons

Germans Surrender in SW Africa

10 Things to Know When Sneaking into North Korea

Terror Attacks on U.S. Capitol, J.P. Morgan

The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that shaped our modern world. Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 190th installment in the series.

New Offensive on Eastern Front, First Battle of the Isonzo

Women at War

The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that shaped our modern world. Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 188th installment in the series.

George Grosz, “Explosion,” via Centenaire.org

“Monstrous Chapters of History”

We're covering the events of World War I exactly 100 years later.

The Origin Story of the Ballpoint Pen

Hungarian brothers László and György Bíró are credited with inventing the pen we still use today.