The Story of the World’s Weirdest Capital City
most countries, the capital coincides with the most heavily-populated cities. However, that’s not always the case: look at Washington D.C. (20th most-populous U.S. city) or Brasília (3rd most-populous Brazilian city). Like D.C. and Brasília, Ngerulmud was built from...
How the British Secret Service Used Monopoly to Help War Prisoners
the number of British pilots and paratroopers held hostage behind enemy lines escalated, the secret service came up with a plan to smuggle escape material to prisoners of war (POW) inside Nazi Germany. The premise was simple: find a way to sneak the gear into prison...
The One-Time-Only Olympic Nation
you think back to where the world was at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, you might think the world has never changed as many in-between Games as it has from 2016 to 2021. However, in the years following the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, lots of political...
