Ancient History
12 Generals You Won’t Believe Switched Sides and Defected to the Enemy
Loyalty, duty, honor, and keeping faith with one's side through thick and thin are prized military values, counted among the…
12 Torturous Methods of Execution in History that Will Make You Squirm
In its purest sense, execution should simply be a way of disposing of miscreants so that they can no longer…
8 History Movies that Hollywood Secretly Tampered With
People who rely on Hollywood portrayals of historical figures often find themselves possessed of inaccurate opinions of the person in…
12 Historically Important Perverts and How They Changed the World
To an extent - great or small - everybody has a bit of a deviant within, with perverse urges eager…
Looks that Kill: 11 Impossible Beauty Standards from History
Having the right hair, nails, makeup, and body shape- even the perfect teeth- sound like modern preoccupations. However, they were…
The Sacred Chickens that Shaped Roman Decision-Making
Some might say Julius Caesar was the most influential figure in Roman history. Others might nominate Brutus, the man who…
12 of History’s Greatest Back Stabbers and their Dramatic Consequences
According to folk etymology, the term "double-cross", as in deception by some kind of double-dealing, originated with the 18th century…
12 of History’s Most Bizarre Rulers
From King Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia who collected giants to staff his favorite regiment the way little girls collected dolls,…
Tremendous Lives and Dramatic Deaths of Twelve Roman Caesars
For the Romans, the way you shuffled off your mortal coil was just as important as the way you bore…
A Closer Look at 10 of History’s Most Pervasive Myths
If there's a line dividing history from mythology, it's so fine that it's practically invisible. No matter how widely read…