Politics
Suffer the Children: The Tragic Fate of Vulnerable Kids in Canadian Governmental Care
Throughout much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Canadian authorities forcibly seized Indigenous children, then raised them in boarding schools…
Tough Teddy and Old Hickory: America’s Most Badass Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt got into boxing in his youth, and continued to box well into middle age in the White House.…
Agent 50: The Heroic Spy Who Saved Hundreds From Japanese Clutches in WWII
William "Bill" Gun Chong, BEM, (1911 - 2006) had himself quite an adventure during World War II. A Chinese-Canadian born…
Abraham Lincoln, Hall of Fame Wrestler, and Other American President Facts
President Lincoln is enshrined not only in the Lincoln Memorial, but also in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. In…
10 African Dictators Who Ruined Their Countries
WWII broke the back of the European Empires, and the dominos began to fall across the imperial spectrum in 1947,…
10 Things We Owe to the French Revolution of 1789
The French Revolution of 1789 had a greater political, intellectual, and cultural impact, than any other revolution in history. It…
Spies Who Paved the Way for Allied Victory in World War II
Spies played a key role in securing victory for the Allies in World War II. From the spy who saved…
Textbooks Rewritten by Governments, and Other Fake and Hidden History
Textbooks in neighboring and nuclear armed rivals India and Pakistan notoriously teach wildly different versions of the same shared history…
Lesser Known Civil Rights Moments That Changed Everything
The black struggle in the United States for freedom, equality, and basic human dignity, stretches back centuries and has taken…
We Are Still Learning Weird Things About Ancient Sparta
Spartan authorities practiced eugenics as a matter of state policy, in order to raise strong warriors to maintain Sparta’s military…