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74 years later D-Day still effects us allAs I begin to write this in nearly 4pm in France. Seventy-four years ago, in Normandy, the operation Overlord had been successful. Four thousand Allied troops that had woke up young and proud and scared that morning would never rise again. Most still remain in cemeteries in Normandy. D-Day did not win the war. But if Winston Churchill was right that victory in the Battle of Britain was "... not even t...

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If you love history, then you know that it does not happen all at once. There are key moments that seem like turning points. The Battle of Hastings when the Normans conquered the Anglo-Saxons and William the Conqueror secured control over most of England. October 19th, 1781 when General Cornwallis’s surrendered his forces at Yorktown. July 3, 1969, the failure of Pickett’s to break the Union lines at Gettysburg and the failure of General Lee...

History was made in 1919 in the city of New York when Louis Marx and his brother David founded what to become a successful toy train company every historical toy collector is celebrating today. The success of Marx was due to the purposeful idea highlighted in the company’s mission which is to “give the customer more toys for less money.” The company never compromised on the quality of toy and accessories produced at the time. The company was succ...