Operation Plunder

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The birth and death of the Ford Edsel, known as the largest flop in automotive history costing the Ford Motor Company more than $6 billion in today’s dollar.

Dutch physics and art student, Theo Jansen, nearly started a riot with a helium-powered “UFO” art project. Today, Jansen’s Strandbeest sculptures stun audiences around the world.

The Mary Rose ship, Henry VIII’s treasured ship and Britain’s first dedicated warship was sunk during a naval battle against the French in 1545. The wreckage resurrected in 1982.

The 25th US President, William McKinley, was the third sitting president to lose his life to an assassin’s bullet. Who assassinated President McKinley and more.

Thomas Edison was not the first to invent the lightbulb, but he did create a commercially viable incandescent bulb with carbon filament.

Lewis Carroll created the story for Alice in Wonderland on a River Thames boat ride near Oxford, in which a bored young girl Alice (named after Alice Liddell, another passenger on the boat) falls down a rabbit hole into a subterranean fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures.

Operation Reunion in late August 1944, when 1,162 captured Allied airmen were repatriated to their airbases. The repatriation spanned 4 days from August 31st to September 3rd.