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6 Odd Medieval Ideas and Inventions That Didn’t Last | History Hit

During the medieval period, some inventions we consider critically important to modern life were being created. The printing press, spectacles,…

On 6 August 1945, an American B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima in Japan, killing an…

Before the invention of nylon, stockings were typically made of cotton, rayon or silk, of which Japan was the world’s biggest exporter in the…

A nuclear close call is a set of circumstances that could have resulted in an unintended nuclear detonation. Incidents normally involve an expected…

Winston Churchill was upset. For months, the British government had been not so secretly providing military aid and advisers to one side in the…

The ‘Wild West’ is a term often used to describe the American frontier between the mid-19th and early 20th century. It is a period in…

Horses were domesticated approximately 6,000 years ago – once their speed and power were harnessed, the world was transformed. From pulling…

The Normans announced their occupation of Britain with a prolific spell of castle-building in the years after William the Conqueror’s 1066…

When William the Conqueror crossed the Channel in 1066 with an army of 7,000 Normans, a new age of English history began. Headed by the mighty House…

In February 1945, warehouses in Birmingham were bursting with millions of pieces of mail intended for members of the US military, government and Red…