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17 Facts about State Visits by Foreign Rulers to the White House Most People Don’t Know
State visits form the prestigious centerpiece of international diplomacy, bringing together the two heads of state from respective nations in…
Sherman’s Other March Was A Lesser Known, Vengeful Attack on South Carolina
Civil War general, William Tecumseh Sherman, is best known in popular culture for his march through Georgia in late 1864,…
20 Facts About the Nazi Occupation of the UK’s Channel Islands
In May of 1940, Nazi Germany invaded the British Channel Islands and claimed it as a new territory for the…
Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” Created Female-Dominated World Well Before Its Time
The story of Ichabod Crane in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has inspired the minds of many for over a…
Balloonfest ’86: United Way of Cleveland’s Fatal Fundraiser
Plastic and other forms of contamination are helping to fuel the environmental catastrophe that humans are forcing upon the planet.…
20 Historical Rulers Who Murdered Members Of Their Own Family
As famously and poetically decreed: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely". Reigning over millions of subjects, many…
20 Moments Royals Have Met Their Demise
Life is uncertain and, at times, unnecessarily cruel. As Benjamin Franklin famously quipped, "nothing can be said to be certain,…
Joan and Stan Lee’s Marriage Is The Love Story the World Didn’t Know it Needed
Stanley Martin Lieber, better known as Stan Lee, was behind the creation of some of the most iconic comic book…
16 Secrets in the Life of a 1960s Playboy Bunny
Few jobs have been as glamorous as the Playboy Bunnies of the 1960s. In a time where women still lacked…
See Marriage, Love, and Courtship Through the Eyes of William Shakespeare
Marriage is a subject that cultures have hotly debated since antiquity. During Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare watched these social events…