# Assassination
This Aristocratic Family Turned on its Abusive Patriarch
In the late 16th century, Renaissance Rome was rocked by a sensational murder whose victim was a dissolute and depraved…
A Series of Catastrophic Events and Decisions Led to the Tragic Fall of Montezuma
Montezuma II (circa 1467 – 1520, reigned 1502 - 1520) was the Aztec Empire’s Tlatoani – a position equivalent to…
18 of the Many Attempts to Assassinate Adolf Hitler by the German Resistance
On July 20, 1944, a bomb exploded during a meeting between senior German military officers and Adolf Hitler in a…
The Gutsy Teenage Oversteegen Sisters Killed Nazis During WWII
On September 5th, 2018, Freddie Oversteegen, a Dutch Resistance heroine of World War II, died in her nineties of a…
A Countdown of History’s 16 Most Influential and Formidable Mercenaries
Mercenaries - warriors hired to take part in armed conflicts, without being a formal part of a government's forces -…
16 Dramatic and Bizarre Ways People Died in Ancient Greece and the Hellenistic World
The Ancient and Hellenistic Greeks played an outsized role in shaping the world, giving us things such as philosophy, democracy,…
The Teenage Spy Who Saved FDR, Churchill, and Stalin
The Tehran Conference, November 28th to December 1st, 1943 was the first meeting of World War II's "Big Three" Allied…
16 Dramatic and Impactful Assassinations from History
By their very nature, assassinations are not only dramatic events, but ones also capable of shaping history or altering its…
16 Forgotten or Lesser Known WWI Facts
November of 2018 will see the centennial of the end of World War I, optimistically labeled by some contemporaries as…
Killing for cash: These 10 Killers Murdered for Money
There are many monikers for the soulless beings who commit cold-blooded murders in exchange for money. Hitmen. Contract killers. Enforcers.…