At the tail end of the 8th Century CE, a group of raiders from Norway plundered a sacred priory off the coast of Scotland, instigating what is now known as the "Viking Age." Who were these terrifying warriors, and were they really as horrific as we are led to believe?

Why do Western powers hate communism so much?

Following World War II, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States all had economic booms fueled by the new industrial revolution, and freshly communist China wanted in on that action, so Chairman Mao Zedong set into action a five-year plan that was designed to match the economic output of the United Kingdom as quickly as possible.

It was one of the worst humanitarian disasters in history.

In 1915, the German Empire began executing Unrestricted Submarine Warfare surrounding the British Isles, ultimately sinking thousands of ships in a four year period. Their fatal mistake? One of those ships had over one thousand civilian men, women, and children on board. It may have ultimately cost them the war.

They challenge what we know about our origins as a species. They go against our understanding of ancient societies. They raise new questions about our abilities as a human race. Stonehenge, the Giza Necropolis, the Pyramid of the Sun, and Gobekli Tepe: these are some of our Megalithic Mysteries.

Systems of economics are far more complicated than "right" and "wrong." So, why do so many people in the United States proclaim Capitalism or Socialism to be inherently evil? I'm going to give you an explanation for each of these systems of economics.

It's one of the most beloved electronic companies in the world, but it's a bit older than you might think. Even... a century older.

In one of the most famous acts of protest in American history, a bunch of guys dressed up like Native Americans boarded a ship in the middle of the night and turned the Boston Harbor into a giant cup of tea. Why was this act of protest so pivotal? Let's examine.

In 1945, World War II came to an end, and the allies were victorious; but being allies didn't necessarily mean they were friends. Splitting the city of Berlin up between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies, the Soviet Union decided that they didn't like how the West was running things, so they established a monument that would forever be remembered as a symbol of division between the East and West.