2017-05-26 12:02 If you wanted to be able to fix an airplane 100 years ago, you pretty much needed the skills to build it in the first place; sometimes there wasn't much difference between building and rebuilding. All...

2017-05-23 20:23 Construction of the four-mile-long tunnel started in 1893 and finished in 1910, and it was the longest in the world at the time, a wonder of the western mining industry.

2017-05-23 17:56 The Red Baron greeted his father with "Hello Papa, I have just shot down an Englishman."

2017-05-20 17:50 History, he says, should not be just a series of names and dates, but the dates themselves can be interesting when you realize that Beethoven died only about a decade before the attack on the Alamo.

2017-05-09 17:44 An American president is supposed to be just one of the American people, and even more so his son. Realistically, though, the son of a president doesn't get to grow up like other people, and even a hu...

2017-05-08 17:09 And the front-line aviators moved around a lot. One group of squadrons moved to a different airfield three times a month, on average, in 1917. (You can't just return an airplane part, shrug your shoul...