Hitler would stop at nothing to increase his appeal to the German public including fabricating a story during his service as a messenger runner in World War I.

What was once a modest home in the Bavarian Alps undergoes an expansion and becomes not only a magnificent home for Hitler but the headquarters in which he could receive foreign heads of state while projecting an image of ultimate power.

Having spent a decade honing his image and perfecting his oratory Hitler's moment to mesmerize and galvanize his followers had arrived.

Unknown to him, a sound engineer records Hitler in a private conversation with Finnish leader Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, in which he states outright lies about Soviet military strength and the Wehrmacht's exploits against it.

Despite a 5-hour parade in his honor on his 50th birthday, attended by 2 million civilians, and gifts pouring in from his staff and from all over the country, Hitler feels unsatisfied because he hasn't been able to demonstrate his true genius.

Just a few hours after the failed assassination attempt at the Wolf's Lair Hitler keeps his appointments that July 20th, 1944, including meeting with Italy's fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

Unknown to him, a sound engineer records Hitler in a private conversation with Finnish leader Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, in which he states outright lies about Soviet military strength and the Wehrmacht's exploits against it.

Just a few hours after the failed assassination attempt at the Wolf's Lair Hitler keeps his appointments that July 20th, 1944, including meeting with Italy's fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

In 1932 Rear Admiral Harry Yarnell mounted a simulated attack on Pearl Harbor utilizing carrier-based airplanes to expose how vulnerable it was to a carrier-borne attack. The Japanese took notice.

George Washington was preceded by several other Presidents of the United States.

Paul Revere has been billed as America?s first action hero after his famous "Midnight Ride" but as truth would have it, he was part of a network.

There are many misconceptions surrounding our understanding of General George Armstrong Custer and his final campaign against the Plains Indians but the actual facts are more compelling than the fiction.

The Articles of Confederation proved to be more trouble than help, with individual states all pushing their interests and agendas, to the point of threatening the country as a whole.

Such were his powers of organization and logistics, Dwight Eisenhower was always kept away from combat because he made others better and more well-prepared for it.

Our vision of Paul Revere's midnight ride is all wrong, especially how it concludes.

Witness how childhood boredom escalated into the mass hysteria that led to the Salem Witch Trials.

When one thinks of America's first amusement ride Coney Island comes to mind, but another ride in Pennsylvania was attracting large crowds of thrill-seekers a decade before.

A small anecdote from the crossing of the Mayflower to America reveals that an indentured servant, John Howland was swept off the deck of the ship during a storm, and that had he not been saved US history would have taken a different turn.

There were actually two boats of Pilgrims that left England for the US, and Plymouth Rock was not the first place the Mayflower disembarked.

Halloween in the early-to-mid-20th century was not a sweet nor pleasant holiday, but an excuse for pranks and general mischief.

The negative characterization of Edgar Allan Poe as a paranoid drug addict with the darkest of minds can be traced back to one man who was a rival of Poe's. There is no proof of drugs and his "darkness" is only inferred because of the scary stori ...

There are several facts and fictions associated with New York City's Empire State Building, like that one about a penny dropped from the top having the ability to kill someone on the sidewalk.