History Facts

  During the Second World War, a colonel, diplomat and Consul General for Geneva from El Salvador named Jose Arturo Castellanos Contrera , partnered with a Jewish-Romanian businessman named György Mandl, saved over 40,000 Central European Jews from persecution. This heroic act saved the Central European Jews and offered them a safe refuge in El Salvador as Contreras gave them enough passports.

  Due to their culture being around cats, the Egyptians lost a battle to the Persians who released a group of cats first before their soldiers, which confused the Egyptian soldiers.  This was the Battle of Pelusium set in the period of around 525 BC or so. 

  In the early days of motorsport, horse tracks were used as the first tracks and circuits for racing automobiles and race-cars.  There are still places in the world where these events are practiced. 

  Meet Smokey Nagata, the Japanese mechanic and legend who heavily modified his Toyota Supra to go near 200 mph on British public roads. Although he was arrested by the British police, he was let off with a fine and a suspension of his driver's license because he was popular with people. 

  The Nighthawk was one of the U.S's best stealth bombers which was known for secretly bombing and neutralising targets without anyone seeing a trace of it before vanishing. But, it was finally shot down. How?  Well, that takes us to Serbia, 1999 . During this time, a Nighthawk, on a routine bombing run, was sighted by the Serbian military who were expecting a bomber after receiving intel from their spies.  Though the bomber was not visible to most of the military on their radar, a Serbian lieutenant, who had studied American bombing patterns,  used a clever tactic to spot the Nighthawk on the radar. Though the Nighthawk completed it's task and bombed the targeted site, two missiles from the Serbian military chased after the now-located aircraft and hit it.  Thankfully, the pilot ejected and landed safely in a forest- but his troubles didn't end there as there were many people looking for him, including ordinary civilians. But, after a risky move by using a flar...

  During my visit to Sanchi in Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh, India), I have noticed that there was a certain building near the structure which oddly looked very "greek" in architecture.  After enquiring a bit on that structure, I have learnt that there were Greek visitors to the site of  the stupa who were converted to Buddhism and spread their messages as they returned home.

  J.R.R Tolkien wrote the Lord of the Rings after returning home from military service in the First World War.