Strange History
The Most Unexpected Items People Used to Buy via Catalog
Before there was Amazon and eBay and all of the plethora of online shopping sites, there was the catalog, from…
The World’s Grossest Catholic Relics
In 2009, a famous tour came to London. Every day for several weeks, people queued in their thousands, huddled into…
16 Death Tests Doctors Used to Determine If Someone Was Really Dead in the 18th and 19th Centuries
It is 1750, and you’ve just died from one of the many communicable diseases of the era. Without the modern…
25 Bizarre Historical Facts They Don’t Teach in School
Classroom history can excite and inspire- or it can be a dry affair consisting of a reel of names, dates,…
Most Don’t Know How Salt Influenced Civilizations and Shaped World History
Some people use the phrase “old as dirt” but have you ever thought of using the term with the word…
20 Fascinating Cold War Events and Vignettes
Mankind is lucky to have survived the Cold War, during which the Soviet and American blocs armed themselves with tens…
20 Historical Figures Who Changed The World, and Also Committed Monstrous Deeds
People are usually complex, and throughout history, other than at the extremes of the moral spectrum, few significant figures have…
16 Terrible Facts about the American Founding Fathers that Didn’t Make it to the History Books
The Founding Fathers, an ambiguous term encompassing those individuals most associated with the formative documents and efforts behind the creation…
Fashion Icon Coco Chanel was a Nazi Secret Agent
Coco Chanel is remembered for being an inspirational woman whose life is a true rags-to-riches story. She defied all odds…
17 Unusual Wills from History
The reading of the will of a recently deceased person is a staple in mystery novels and films as well…