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A Screaming Queen’s Ghost and More Spooky Encounters that Haunt Us
Spooky tales of encounters at Hampton Court Palace with the screaming ghost of Catherine Howard, one of Henry VIII’s wives who lost her head – literally – have circulated for centuries. So have spooky tales of encounters with the ghost of George Washington at his mansion in Mount Vernon. Below are twenty five things about …
https://historycollection.com/a-screaming-queens-ghost-and-more-spooky-encounters-that-haunt-us/Moments that People Who Lived Through the 1970s Will Never Forget
The 1970s were one of America’s weirdest decades. Sandwiched between the idealistic ‘60s and the self-centered ‘80s, the 1970s often fall between the cracks in popular memory. What comes to mind – to the extent that anything does – to most are bell bottom pants, Disco, Watergate, gas shortages, and national malaise. There was way …
https://historycollection.com/moments-that-people-who-lived-through-the-1970s-will-never-forget/Oddities, Misconceptions, and Facts About the Middle Ages that Made it So Delightfully Strange
In Middle Ages Europe, getting a divorce was next to impossible, and the only way out of a marriage was the death of a spouse or annulment. A woman who sought annulment often had to bring a case based on her man’s inability to “perform his duties” in bed. That often involved an awkward public …
https://historycollection.com/oddities-misconceptions-and-facts-about-the-middle-ages-that-made-it-so-delightfully-strange/The 1970s Witchcraft Trial and Other Oddities in Witch History
The persecution of women for witchcraft sounds like the kind of backwards stuff that belongs in Colonial Salem or 1600s Europe, not something that could happen in modern America. Yet in the 1970s, rumors swirled that a high school teacher in a conservative suburb of Tucson, Arizona, was a witch. Although tenured, tenure did not …
https://historycollection.com/the-1970s-witchcraft-trial-and-other-oddities-in-witch-history/The True Story of The Last Duel and Judicial Combat
Suppose one had a dispute with one’s neighbor over encroachment on one’s property. In the modern world, one would attempt to resolve said dispute through negotiation, or arbitration, or litigation. Legal fees would ensue, and the case could molder in court dockets for months, or even years, frustrating the parties involved. In the Middle Ages, …
https://historycollection.com/the-true-story-of-the-last-duel-and-judicial-combat/Strange and Delightful Holiday Traditions of the Victorian Era
Victorian England is a fascinating historical era where the rules of society became quite confusing. From intense medical practices during this era to the Industrial Revolution, it seems like this period of time tested the waters for society. One thing that defines a society more than most things are the holidays and traditions its people …
https://historycollection.com/strange-and-delightful-holiday-traditions-of-the-victorian-era/Colonial America Was a Wild and Difficult Place to Be
Just about everybody has heard of the Boston Tea Party. However, Beantown was not the only colonial city that held a popular protest against British tea in the years leading up to the American Revolution. Other cities, such as Charleston, South Carolina, also held tea protests that are now almost forgotten, that involved the seizure …
https://historycollection.com/colonial-america-was-a-wild-and-difficult-place-to-be/The Ugliest Royal Portraits of All Time
Royal families. The idea of a royal family invokes images of glamor, elegance, and grandeur. Our cultures have always wandered what it would be like to be part of a royal household. Living in a castle, having servants wait on you hand and foot. Their lifestyle and fame almost make them feel like living myths; …
https://historycollection.com/the-ugliest-royal-portraits-of-all-time/Panic Outbreaks That Shaped History and Controlled the Masses
Mass panic outbreaks can shape historic events – for worse, but sometimes for the better. On the bad side, as is true for most panic outbreaks, the results are awful. The Salem Witch Trials and other literal witch-hunts are prime examples. Sometimes, however, there is a silver lining, as occurred in 1789 when a mass …
https://historycollection.com/panic-outbreaks-that-shaped-history-and-controlled-the-masses/A Definitive List of Some of History’s Most Awful People and Events
Terrible people and terrible events have been far too common throughout history. Take the conman who styled himself “Witch Finder General”, and went about offering his services to the gullible. He ended up engineering England’s biggest mass execution. Or the delusional dictator of a small country who was a huge Napoleon fanboy. He renamed his …
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