Operations Plunder and Varsity

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Project Blue Book was a secret military program to examine reports of UFOs to analyze threats to national security. Ultimately, the freedom of information act would uncover that while many UFO sightings had an explanation, hundreds were unexplainable.

Martin Luther King Jr was raised by a family of pastors and educated in theology before becoming a leading civil rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and martyr for racial activism.

Alexander the Great was born into royalty in Macedonia, educated by Aristotle, and would ascend to the Macedonian throne after his father was assassinated, building one of the largest empires of his time.

Caligula was a Roman emperor who was the victim of an unknown illness that resulted in erratic, impulsive and sadistic behavior. Caligula’s excesses and draining of the treasury would result in a conspiracy among senators to assassinate the mentally ill emperor.

The seaside city of Varosha Cyprus was a luxury destination for celebrities and the wealthy of the 60s and early 70s, until Turkish forces seized control in 1974, driving out residents and tourists and effectively turning Varosha into a maximum-security ghost town.

The Hoover Dam is a marvel of human engineering, employing more than 21,000 men to construct with innovative concrete cooling techniques that had never been tested before at such a scale.

As American westward expansion pushed forward in the early 19th century, the Oregon Trail was created to offer safer passage for covered wagons before the transcontinental railroad was built.