While enlisted men and officers are often captured while wars rage, it is almost unheard of for such a high-ranking officer to become a prisoner of war.
The Wars of the Roses were a three-decades-long fight between branches of one family (Yorks, Lancasters, and Tudors) over who should sit on England's throne.
One bit of trivia that is often overlooked in these discussions is the name of the last person to die directly in a war -- the last fatality in the conflict.
A tree almost restarted the Korean war and caused tensions between the two Koreas and the United States to come to a head -- over a tree, and an axe murder.
Victorian ideals of morality and decency ran rampant at the time of the American Civil War, but this did not stop several women from fighting as soldiers.
Several famous people grew up hearing of their relatives' persecution by the Nazis. Here are some celebrities with family members who survived the Holocaust.
The Cold War had a generations-long impact on the residents of Berlin after World War II. Here's what it was like living in Berlin during the Cold War.
The Vietnam War has become known for the brutal battles fought, with thousands of U.S. soldiers' lives lost. Medics worked alongside troops, saving lives.
Cashier's fellow soldiers did not know that he was born Jennie Hodgers in a small fishing village 40 miles north of Dublin, Ireland, on Christmas Day 1843.
The 19th-century photographer Mathew Brady, who went from taking portraits of the rich and famous to taking death portraits on Civil War battlefields, is known for depicting the cost of war. The truth of Civil War photographer Mathew Brady is he funded the photojournalism himself and went into debt.
The U.S. Army deployed around 600 carrier pigeons, according to the World War I Centennial Commission, and one stood out as heroic. The pigeon's name was Cher Ami -- French for "dear friend."
If the stars had aligned slightly differently, the muscle-bedecked action star would have portrayed one of most important roles in the franchise. But, in the end, he joined the ranks of other "almost" Star Wars stars, which in turn kept the franchise from becoming something akin to Judge Dredd.
Leonardo DiCaprio: owner of Hollywood's most increasingly wizened boy face, as well as non-hirsute dad bod role model for the rest of us. And, of course, he's also a world-renowned, award-winning actor who finally garnered his first Oscar in 2016 for being mauled by a bear.
One group, eventually numbering a couple of thousand, tried to establish a colony in Mexico, says the Abbeville Institute -- "New Virginia." Others headed for British Honduras. Slavery had been abolished in both countries, however, and so a much more attractive -- and popular -- option was Brazil.
Too often in life, people are divided into socially reinforced groups, diametrically opposed to one another on principle. Jets versus Sharks. Montagues versus Capulets. Contemporary versus classical theater nerds. And, for a time, Star Wars fans were often pitted against Star Trek fans.
History forgets the role Black Americans had in their own liberation during the Civil War. This is what life was like for Black people during the Civil War.
Now, there's a new hidden detail in Star Wars making its way across the internet, rounding out a galaxy far, far away just that much more. It regards Yoda's living situation, and friends? It's a stone cold bummer.
The movie American Gangster includes a stunning sequence, wherein heroin was smuggled into the U.S. inside the coffins of fallen soldiers returning from the Vietnam War. Did this really happen?