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Photographs of Toys from the Last 100 Years
The origin of toys is prehistoric. Dolls, animals, soldiers, and representations of tools used by adults are often found at…
Without a Trace: 10 People the Romans Tried to Erase from History
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past”. So reads the slogan George Orwell…
Knight Tales: The 9 Greatest Knights of the Middle Ages
The knight in shining armor and the damsel in distress are two of the Middle Age’s most enduring clichés. Through…
25 Portraits of Patients and Living Conditions at London’s Notorious Bethlem Royal Hospital
The Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St. Mary Bethlehem and Bedlam, is an infamous psychiatric hospital in London. It…
24 Pictures of the Controversial First Heart Transplant in Poland
Dr. Zbigniew Religa was a prominent Polish cardiac surgeon and politician. In 1963, Religa finished his studies at the Medical…
25 Photographs of Mother Teresa and Her Cult of Suffering
Mother Teresa was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. In 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious…
True Believers: 10 Japanese Holdouts Who Did Not Surrender After WWII Ended
When World War II ended with Japan's surrender in August of 1945, millions of Japanese military personnel were spread across…
Kids in Battle: 10 American Child Soldiers of the Civil War
The US Civil War was the last conflict in which significant numbers of American children were utilized as soldiers: it…
Frontier Firearms: 5 Rifles that Won the American West
Emigrants, settlers, and soldiers faced an uncertain and dangerous future in the aftermath of the American Civil War. Bitter postbellum…
The Scandalous Love Lives of 8 Roman Emperors
If you only need to know one thing about Roman attitudes towards sex, it’s that they've given us our word…