22. A 16-year-old German soldier, 1945 A fifteen year old German soldier, Hans-Georg Henke, cries after being captured by the US 9th Army, Germany, 1945. A post shared by Lost in history (@lostinhistorypics) on Jun 7, 2016 at 5:59am PDT This 16-year-old boy’s name is Hans-Georg Henke. According to several sources, he was captured by …

Right now, America is in the midst of an exhilarating newspaper war the likes of which has not been seen since the Watergate scandal. Reporters such as The New York Times’s Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman, and Glenn Thrush and The Washington Post’s Greg Miller, Philip Rucker, and Adam Entous—to name some of the most relentless—have …

The Bermuda Triangle has an Eastern counterpoint located in the Philippine Sea that has supposedly been swallowing up ships for centuries. Surely you’ve heard of the Bermuda Triangle. It’s that supposed vortex of death located in the Atlantic Ocean around Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda where planes, tankers and thousands of people have mysteriously disappeared. …

1940s  November 20, 1947: Day of joy that led to lifetime of devotion Theirs was a romance that beguiled a nation. Britain, weary of war and the austerity years that followed, was as much in love with the idea of a Royal Wedding as Elizabeth and Philip were with each other. The young couple did not disappoint. …

Henry Jeffreys visits a country rediscovering its viticultural riches Every 100 metres or so on the main road to Iran that runs through the Vayots Dzor province of Armenia there is a stall selling tomatoes, watermelons and Coca-Cola. I was with an Italian-Armenian businessman Zorik Gharibian and his wife Yeraz, and they suggested we stop …