Literature
These Historical Figures Toed the Line of Leadership
It wasn’t just ordinary Germans or Italians who cheered their authoritarian leaders in the 1920s and 1930s. Outside of the…
20 Heart Wrenching Love Stories Throughout History
As much as we yearn for a good love story, tragic love stories of unrequited love, the premature death of…
These Ancient Libraries Would Make Any Book Lover Drool
Few people in the ancient world could read or write. Even many kings and emperors needed to employ special scribes…
Facts and Myths From the Life of Queen Elizabeth I
When she was born in 1533, Elizabeth was a great disappointment to her father. King Henry VIII of England had…
30 Eye-Opening Facts About the Life and Tragic Death of Anne Frank
Anne Frank is quite possibly the most famous victim of the Holocaust or Shoah. Captured by an SS officer in…
Forget Disney, these 18 Princesses Loved Behaving Badly
Thanks to centuries of fairy tales, not to mention Disney movies, society has a pretty rigid idea of what a…
Jaw-Dropping Truths About History’s Most venereal Practices
While the term BDSM, an acronym that combines abbreviations for bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism, and masochism, is…
Birds, Entrails and Newborn Babies: 20 of the Strangest Fortune Telling Methods from History
These days, most forms of divination – that is, ways to try and see into the future – have been…
These ‘Cougars’ from History Shocked Society
While for millennia, men of power and great wealth have been taking female lovers many years their junior without a…
These Details About Krampus, the Christmas Demon, would Make all Children Fear the Holidays
Krampus is the quintessential antithesis of Santa Claus, and he has seen a revival in the past recent years as…