The chances of surviving as a prisoner in ww2 During the second world war, millions of combatants were taken as prisoners by their enemies and forced to endure horrible things to survive. Over 3 million German prisoners of war were captured by the Russians alone, and...
How did the Neanderthals survive? There was a very long period in human history when people lived so primitively that they didn’t even have pottery, anything made of metal was a distant dream and the most advanced piece of technology on the planet consisted of a sharp...
What was life like for poor Victorians? The Victorian era ran from 1837 until 1901, which in comparison to something like the medieval period makes it very recent, so most people would assume things for the average person would be much better. This most...
The 3 most disastrous expeditions of all time In the earlier years of exploration, there was a race between the superpowers of the world to be the first to find new lands and trade routes. Dozens of countries sent ships to find routes through the Northwest Passage, or...
How common are natural disasters A natural disaster can be considered as an event created by nature that causes wide-scale destruction of property or landscape, or loss of life. In 2022, there were 387 natural disasters and hazards recorded worldwide by EM-DAT...