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When Christianity was getting its start, the religion didn't exactly spread like wildfire. In its early days, the world was a tough place to be spreading new ideas. To create converts, Christians had to appeal to many, many different kinds of peop…

  "An author cannot, of course, remain wholly unaffected by his experience." These are the

You may not believe in ghosts. Neither did many White House employees...until they started working there. Hundreds of reports of famous former residents have been filed over the years by those workers. President

The Battle of the Coral Sea was a game-changer in terms of naval battles. Not only did it mark the first time the Allies turned the Japanese back during World War II, it was the first time ships fought without sighting each other. That means the pri…

A rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet. That's a lesson the military has taken to heart, changing the names for plenty of items that civilians all know by another name. 1. "100 mph tape" and "Tape, adhesive cloth, 2 i…

Few military leaders in history are as iconic as General Douglas MacArthur. He was a bigger-than-life figure who rose to five-star rank and grew to believe in his own myth so much that he thought he was above the Constitution and ultimately had to …

Before joining the service, I thought everyone in the military was somehow fighting and killing bad guys. I looked to movies and television to try to put myself into the mindset of who I wanted to be if I had to fight a real battle.Clearly, I…

Getting out of the military is a great day for most. You've been anticipating this day for years and it's finally here — but now what? Is it all peaches and cream once you're on the other side? It might be, but there are some bl…

The machine gun changed warfare, causing the marching formations of the Civil War to give way to the industrialized warfare of World War I. And the U.S. has fielded dozens of designs since Hiram Maxim first tried to interest the country in his 1884 …

With possibility of a huge troop surge to Afghanistan coming from the Trump administration, We Are The Mighty asked several OEF combat vets what they missed most from their time "in the suck." Here's what they had to say. Rel…

The Fulda Gap is not well known outside military planners and wargamers. But if World War III happened, that would be where one of the first battles would be fought between the United States Army and the Soviet Red Army. Who would…