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A British soldier who survived the Battle of Dunkirk in WW2, did so with a picture of his new bride in his pocket. After the horror of Dunkirk saw the allies having to retreat along the beaches of Belgium and northern France, brave Norman Johnson swam through the waters to the safety of a boat, […]

The Disney Mickey Mouse Gas Mask is a strange entry in the long and successful cannon of Disney themed merchandise. It all came about during WW2, a month after the Pearl Harbour attack. For the first time in the war an attack had taken place on American soil. Now the threat of a chemical attack […]

The circumstances surrounding the death of 20-year-old Kyle Brennan in 2007 warrant discussion for anyone interested in the workings of Scientology and its strange relationship with the American judiciary. Kyle died from a gunshot wound to the head on Friday, February 16, 2007. (The time of death was estimated to be 11:00 p.m.) He was […]

On January 21, 2008, Italian police rescued Frenchwoman Martine Boublil from a house where she was being held captive by Scientologists. Ms Boublil had been kidnapped in France on the instructions of her brother, Claude Boublil, a senior Scientologist and doctor. She had been transported to Sardinia, where she was kept for 6 weeks, locked […]

At the 1992 Dandenong Show in Victoria, Australia, an inflatable bouncy castle took flight with 5 children trapped inside. The pleasant family annual event took a turn after a freak gust of wind blew the castle from its moorings and into the air. Thankfully, sideshow assistant, Ricky McCasker (21) was working at the nearby ferris […]

World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient John Robert Fox was a rare breed of hero. He sacrificed his life in order to save his fellow soldiers in a manner that saw him going beyond the call of duty to the very last. Lieutenant Fox served in the United States Army as a 1st Lieutenant […]

Back in February 2011, the New Yorker published an article on Scientology that would become a sensation. Lawrence Wright’s extensively researched 24,000-word piece about director Paul Haggis and the Church of Scientology, delved deep into the inner workings of the organisation and its treatment of those that had signed up to the billion year membership contract. However, […]

Children can very often be an inspiration for their unhindered kindness. In 2012, a 9 year-old boy demonstrated resourcefulness and generosity that would put most of us adults to shame. Inspired by the story of the man that traded up from one red paperclip to a house, young Brendan Haas decided to use social media […]

How is this for heroism? In September 2011, a Gurkha single-handedly fought off an attack by over a dozen Taliban insurgents. Acting Sergeant Dipprasad Pun used up all of his ammunition and resorted to using his machine gun tripod to repel the attack that took place at a checkpoint near Babaji, in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. […]

Kim Hughes, 34, is considered to be Britain’s bravest bomb hunter. In 2010 the warrant officer was awarded the George Cross – the highest accolade for gallantry not in the face of the enemy – for heroism on the battlefield. His heroics were described in the Ministry of Defence citation as “the single most outstanding […]