Necessity is truly the mother of invention, and there is no greater need for solutions to problems than when you’re about to get killed. Wars have always brought out the best and worst in people, including feats of ingenuity. In the ongoing quest to find better ways to kill each other, history has documented some really clever improvised weapons. Here are just a few of them that were quite good in both concept and practice.
Anti-Tank Sniper Rifle

When Hitler decided to send his Nazi armies marching towards Russia, he never expected …

Hitler Liked Disney Characters
For many who are familiar with the backlogs of history, they know that Adolf Hitler was a struggling artist before he turned to politics and showcased his talent for oratory and eventually became the Jew-hating dictator that he was. One of the things he really liked, aside from gassing people, were Disney characters.
He liked sketches of them and even enjoyed the movies. He thought that Snow White was one of the best movies ever made. He was even given Mickey Mouse stuff as a gift by his …

There are plenty of things that are wrong in this world, including what you can be arrested for possessing. If you’ve never been stopped at an airport and arrested for carrying half-a-gram of cocaine on your person, then consider yourself lucky. But despite all the contraband that can land you in the slammer, there are a few things that are just as dangerous if not more, but are actually technically alright to own and even use.
Flamethrowers

They’re big, bad, and can spew scorching flames that can reduce even the biggest hunks …

It is no secret that the US is very serious when it comes to the “War on Terror”, and it take a considerable amount of manpower and strategic planning to pull it off like how they are doing it. Among all the obvious measures like heightening the security in airports, arresting anyone who is suspected of being a part of a terrorist cell, and killing off their leaders, there are some that may seem really weird. But despite how unusual and even ridiculous they are, authorities have somehow given the …

The use of language in both speech and writing may have devolved to gutteral sounds and various vernacular forms that can make you scratch your head unless you get the cultural context, but there is still some semblance of civility with the use of quotations. Each has a different meaning and origin, a lot of them have been used and abused to oblivion, and some of them have lost their original meaning. It’s just a part of the evolution of language, much to the chagrin of both scholars and pseudo-intellectuals, …