Chris Morris

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Assassinating Adolf Hitler and Reinhard Heydrich: The History of the Attempts to Kill the Nazi Dictator and the Blond Beast

Assassinating Adolf Hitler and Reinhard Heydrich: The History of the Attempts to Kill the Nazi Dictator and the Blond Beast

Like other totalitarian regimes, the leader of the Nazis kept an iron grip on power in part by making sure nobody else could attain too much of it, leading to purges of high-ranking officials in the Nazi party. Of these purges, the most notorious was...

Sulla and Gaius Marius: The Lives and Legacies of the Leaders Who Fought Rome’s First Civil War

Sulla and Gaius Marius: The Lives and Legacies of the Leaders Who Fought Rome’s First Civil War

Caesar is still remembered for winning a civil war and helping bring about the end of the Roman Republic, leaving a line of emperors in its place, but it’s quite possible that none of what Caesar did would’ve happened without the template for such...

The Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope: The History of the World’s Most Important Telescopes

The Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope: The History of the World’s Most Important Telescopes

By the time the Hubble telescope reached orbit, it was already the world’s most famous telescope, but it was also the most scorned. The telescope cost nearly $2 billion more to complete than anticipated, and to make matters worse, the first images it...