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Find out about the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, a civilian airliner transformed into a lethal World War II bomber

Explore the Leigh Light, a simple World War II invention that devastated Hitler's U-boats and turned the tide in the Battle of the Atlantic

Explore the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery, a daring heist that netted criminals nearly $400 worth of gold at 2025 exchange rates

Find out about Sisygambis, mother of Persia's King Darius III who replaced her son in her affections with his conqueror, Alexander the Great

Explore the life and career of Edward England, the humane pirate captain deposed by his crew for being too nice

Explore the career of Henry Jennings, the influential privateer-turned-pirate who helped set the stage for the Golden Age of Pirates

Find out about Jack Lummus, the budding NFL star who gave up football to join the Marines in WWII, and earned a Medal of Honor at Iwo Jima

Explore the Dacian falx, an ancient curved sword used by Dacian warriors that shocked and terrified their Roman foes

Explore World War II's Freeman Field Mutiny, when Black officers took a courageous stand against segregation in the US armed forces

Find out about World War II's Schwerer Gustav, history's biggest ever rifled gun, and the biggest artillery piece ever fired in combat

Find out about the American M3 Grant, a flawed stopgap tank that nonetheless played a vital role in World War II

Explore the M1 helmet, the US military's iconic standard protective headgear in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam

Find out about Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion who defiantly refused to heed his era's racial conventions

Find out about the Petlyakov Pe-2, the formidable Soviet World War II bomber that was designed in a gulag by imprisoned engineers

Find out about Khalid ibn al-Walid, the formidable Arab and Muslim general who defeated both the Byzantine and Persian empires

Find out about William Wing Loring, a former Confederate general who ended up serving in the Egyptian Army after the US Civil War

Explore the complex legacy of Toussaint Louverture, leader of the Haitian Revolution, history's most successful slave revolt