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  1. Military Spending RACE: The Top 10 countries from 1950–2025

    Oct 5, 2025 · Top 10 Military Budgets from 1950 to 2025. This Bar Chart Race shows exactly how global power shifted after WWII. The Soviet Union's dominance, China's massive recent …

  2. Historum's Top 100 Generals List | History Forum

    Oct 25, 2024 · To those who did not participate in the project, this was our effort to make a geographically equitable list of the 100 greatest generals in history, using a combination of a …

  3. Hello everyone, this is my first post here. | History Forum

    Sep 29, 2025 · Hello everyone, my name is Jonghwan, and I run a history blog in Korea. It’s a pleasure to meet you all. While doing various research for my blog, I came across this …

  4. Oldest written joke in history | History Forum - historum.com

    Aug 10, 2010 · Some sources say it was Sumerian, and some say it was Egyptian. Sumeria had the history's first novel, love song, and writing system itself...

  5. The Shatuo - History Forum

    Mar 11, 2013 · Is it just a coincidence that the Chinese I met have no idea about the Shatuo who founded 3 dynasties and 1 kingdom in Northern China because they are accepted just …

  6. Ancient Chariots. | History Forum

    They may be a thread on this somewhere ( but I didn't have much luck working the search function ) . I recently saw a doco on Chinese war Chariots. It is interesting to compare them …

  7. The size of Barbarian Migrations? | History Forum

    As to the migrations across the Rhine in 406 AD, Hans Delbruck thinks that numbers of migrating Barbarians were probably not more than 15,000 at most. Bernard Bachrach thinks perhaps …

  8. Ray's History Riddles. | History Forum

    May 4, 2016 · I wrote an E-book of 50 original History Riddles for the Kindle store. I got into making riddles right here at Historum, and even plugged us in the opening...

  9. Conflicting Primary Sources? - History Forum

    Nov 16, 2017 · I'm researching a local historical event - a riot that took place over 100 years ago. Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of literature on the subject that I've been able to find - I haven't …

  10. The Wild Man of Orford - History Forum

    Sep 25, 2015 · In around 1205 Monk, Ralph of Coggeshall reported an incident which happened roughly forty years earlier at Orford Castle in Suffolk, England. Men fishing in the sea caught in …