Our Portly category has plenty of stories about passengers sitting next to obese seatmates, but the seatmates probably didn’t quite reach the proportions of the guy in the picture (the person in theLike Pleats On A Dressstory might have come the closest). You really have to feel for th...
The Crimean War (1853–56) was fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between Russia and Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire. It arose from the conflict of great powers in the Middle East and was more directly caused by Russian demands to exercise pr
Nogi Maresuke was a general in Meiji-period Japan. He served as governor of Taiwan (then occupied by Japan) and fought in the Russo-Japanese War. On the death of the Meiji emperor, Nogi and his wife committed ritual suicide by seppuku (self-disembowelmen