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Dramatic Assassination Plots from History and Their Outcomes
Assassination and the risk thereof are an occupational hazard for the prominent, the powerful, or just the plain famous and…
America Wanted to Nuke the Moon and Other Weird History
People often get up to weird stuff, and the world can be a weird place at times. Take for instance…
Great Daring Moments From History
Some among us are just naturally more daring than the rest of humanity. The lucky amongst us might go through…
Lesser Known Byzantine Empire Facts
The western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in 476, but the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine…
History’s Most Lunatic Events and People
Throughout history, many a lunatic has risen to a position of power, from which he played an outsized role in…
Historic Ideas That Aged Like Complete Garbage
Throughout history, many an idea seemed brilliant when first introduced, but turned out to be not so bright in hindsight.…
History’s Out of the Ordinary Radicals
In 1946, Brazil’s government prohibited the country’s newspapers from mentioning Japan’s defeat in the recently concluded Second World War. The…
Crime Waves and Savage Fads From History That Were Just Unnatural
Crime waves, like actual waves in the ocean, come and go. Some crime waves grow from serious and predictable factors,…
40 Things About The Outlandish Math Cult Leader, and Other Unusual Facts From the Ancient World
Most of us know Pythagoras from grade school geometry, as that ancient guy who came up with that theory about…
Unusual Historic Crises and Calamities
Looking at history, one can’t help but wonder whether the world has it in for mankind. From devastating plagues and…