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15/03/2021

Pop culture and other mainstream media often perpetuate fake versions of history. We are here to separate the true history from the false.

07/03/2021

Symbols, beliefs and habits are what make up humanity's cultures. But what about the symbols and beliefs that are downright ridiculous?

01/03/2021

News reporters going to extreme lengths to chase down a story is so common a trope that it has become a cliché. However, few examples could have been more extreme than when CBS News financed multiple armed invasions throughout the Caribbean, in exchange for exclusive broadcasting rights. Following ...

22/02/2021

In her last clear radio transmission received by the United States Coast Guard Cutter Itasca on July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart broadcast her final word, “wait”. The world has waited to discover what happened to her and her flying companion, Fred Noonan, ever since. Despite a massive sea and air se...

19/02/2021

Shuffling off the mortal coil is tragic, but such is the circle of life. However, the tragedy of some demises is often mixed with a hefty dose of comedy. Such as that time when dozens of medieval nobles and high-ranking clergy gathered for a meeting, only for the floor to collapse and send them plum...

16/02/2021

In 1941, Poland declared war against Japan. In a strange twist, the Japanese government refused to accept the Polish declaration of war. Not only that, but the Japanese helped the Poles spy on Japan’s ally, Germany, and cooperated with Polish intelligence throughout the war. Following are thirty t...

13/02/2021

In 1889, a new product came to the American market, advertised as the first “ready mix” for pancakes in the United States. Developed by the Pearl Milling Company of St. Joseph, Missouri, it did not sell well. Partners Charles G. Underwood and Chris Rutt found the market for flours to be highly c...

09/02/2021

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03/02/2021

Since 1976, the year of the American Bicentennial, each US President has designated February as Black History Month. It is also referred to as African American History Month, and its roots go much further back than 1976. They can be traced to September 1915. Jesse E. Moorland, an ordained Congregati...

31/01/2021

The question of who was the ancient world’s greatest warrior usually boils down to a debate between Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. For example, Alexander the Great changed history in more ways than many people realize. Although he was king of ancient Macedonia for less than 13 years, Ale...

26/01/2021

Dearest Readers, It’s abundantly clear that the Regency Era is all the fad thanks to the hit Netflix series, ‘Bridgerton.’ But there is so much that the show does not cover. In 1811, with the Napoleonic Wars at their height and the French Empire stretching from Spain to the borders of Russia, ...

20/01/2021

It is hardly a surprise to anybody to learn that people could be jerks at times. We all know the old cliche surrounding the high school jock picking on the other kids in high school. That kind of jerk isn’t only in the movie, but many people don’t realize how many terrible people are out […]

15/01/2021

Doctors and scientists are usually highly respected. The former for literally saving our lives, and the latter for working to advance human knowledge and improve life for mankind. At least that is what most doctors and scientists do or try to do most of the time. This is especially true for doctors....

13/01/2021

Today, most people live in societies where the power of the state is omnipresent, and the rule of law is taken for granted. From time to time throughout history, however, that power has slipped, and violent unrest, rioting, or outright rebellion came to rule the day. Sometimes the unrest is caused b...

12/01/2021

Nowadays, it is hard to pick up a newspaper or turn on the news without coming across scandal after scandal. Unfortunately – or fortunately – if you ascribe to the misery-loves company school of thought, scandals are nothing new, and have been around forever. But scandals from history come in a ...

04/01/2021

Throughout history, being a member of a royal family usually came with a giant serving of privileges. Sometimes, however, it also came with a giant serving of other royal family members coming at you with seriously bad intentions. Modern day humans aren’t the only ones that have issues with their ...

24/12/2020

America honors its Founding Fathers, though often in a manner unworthy of them. Too often they are depicted as bewigged gentlemen, always in formal attire and ostentatious pose. Their vibrancy is stripped from them. They appear as stoics, debating politics and positions in formal prose, loftily deci...

23/12/2020

The European nation’s which sent settlers to the New World in the 17th and 18th centuries already had a long tradition of imprisoning people for unpaid debts, both public and private. In Great Britain, whole families sometimes found themselves forced to live in prisons, in often squalid conditions...

19/12/2020

You know that feeling after carnal loving, when we lay there wondering if our breathing and heart rate will ever return to normal? Well, sometimes they don’t. There you are, frantically plunging away or relaxing in the afterglow, and suddenly there is the Grim Reaper, tapping your shoulder and tel...

15/12/2020

Roughly six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Some did what they could, risking their lives, to save Jews from the Germans. However, human nature being what it is, those willing to risk their own necks to save others were relatively few and far in between. However, they did exist, and f...

12/12/2020

A natural disaster such as a tsunami earthquake, volcano, or flood could kill hundreds of thousands, or even millions. Those figures are eclipsed by humanity’s ability to harm itself with man-made disasters whose death tolls might reach into the tens of millions. Whether caused by mistake or malic...

10/12/2020

Problems call for solutions like a parched throat calls for water. But just like not all water is good water, not every solution is a good solution. Take attempts to torture trauma away. Or treating women’s “hysteria” by trying to induce or***ms with giant steam-powered and coal-fueled vibrato...

06/12/2020

When most people think of the Middle Ages, they might imagine the dirty peasants covered head-to-toe in mud from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Together with those images and the fact that people died so young, it’s easy to have that perspective. We assume that there must not have been any hygie...

30/11/2020

“Dictator” and “tyrant” are dirty words today, and rightly so. Millennia ago, however, tyrants were wildly popular in Ancient Greece, and a dictator was a highly respected position in the Roman Republic. Good tyrants or benevolent dictators were not just propagandistic descriptions, but actu...

20/11/2020

The N**i onslaught in World War II and the struggle to beat it back brought out extremes of human behavior, both good and bad. There was the sublime heroism of antifascists risking – and often sacrificing – it all to resist, and the vileness of those who went to similar extremes to support evil....

20/11/2020

How should one measure the size of an empire? By the amount of landmass accumulated? By the number of peoples subjugated? The British Empire, self-described as so expansive that the sun always shone on a portion of it, stretched around the world. But in contiguous landmass it never eclipsed the Russ...

16/11/2020

In the late 18th century personal hygiene differed considerably from what is acceptable today. It also differed considerably based on an individual’s place in society, and the mores of the local community. Simply put, some bathed with regularity while others looked askance at the practice. Medical...

14/11/2020

Friendly fire, the inadvertent attack on members of one’s own military during combat, has been a documented fact of warfare for centuries. Not to be confused with deliberate firing on one’s own troops, friendly fire incidents are accidents, with often deadly results. History is replete with such...

13/11/2020

Some of the greatest films of all time are “based on a true story”. But how true are they, really? In many cases, screenwriters have to edit and delete certain aspects of a person’s life in order to make it fit in a 2-hour movie. Most of the time, they’re trying to keep in as […]

11/11/2020

Being a hero is tough – if not, then we would all be heroes. Many heroes go unrecognized, and of those who are, the recognition seldom lasts for long before their deeds are forgotten. From a heroic World War I nurse, to a heroic WWII spy, following are thirty-five things about heroes whose deeds a...

08/11/2020

Most of the time, people are not evil. Especially as individuals. But gather people together, and between group dynamics, opportunism, and a sense of diffused moral responsibility, the odds of bad things happening increase. Following are thirty-five things about otherwise innocent groups and compani...

06/11/2020

When we go through the history books, we often see paintings and illustrations of famous people. However, this is often left up to the artist’s interpretation of the person. More often that not, paintings we see of famous people look so drastically different, it’s difficult to tell what they act...

01/11/2020

Arguably the most famous fighter pilot in history, Germany’s Manfred Von Richthofen shot down 80 enemy airplanes during World War I. That total made the Red Baron the leading fighter ace of the war, with more kills than any other pilot of any nation. When compared to the fighter aces of the Second...

30/10/2020

Assassination and the risk thereof are an occupational hazard for the prominent, the powerful, or just the plain famous and popular. The murder of such people can have an outsized impact, sometimes altering the trajectory of history and producing results that shape events for centuries. Following ar...

26/10/2020

Tragic disasters are, sadly, all too common in history. Like bolts of lightning out of the clear blue, they strike unexpectedly, catching us unawares and leaving widespread devastation behind. From the twentieth century’s deadliest earthquake, to history’s deadliest plague, following are thirty-...

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