# crime
16 Remarkable But Frequently Overlooked Women
There are plenty of fascinating people from history who helped shape the world, only to end up overlooked, without receiving…
18 Incidents of People Vanishing into Thin Air Throughout History
It’s always intriguing when someone simply vanishes. Throughout history people have vanished without a trace, leaving little sign as to…
18 Biggest Bank Robbers and Robberies in American history
Bank robbery is a federal crime in the United States, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation defines the act of…
Arthur Rimbaud’s Roller Coaster Life, from Sensitive Poet to Mercenary and Arms Dealer
Few have embodied the "haunted poet" bit better than French poet Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), an early…
The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos Shook the Phillippines
In 1976, Filipino journalist Primitivo Mijares wrote The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and Imelda Marcos, a tell-all that spilled…
16 Terrible People Who Knew How to Lay on the Charm or Inspire Others
In the movies and on TV, bad guys are usually depicted as clear cut baddies, personally repellent and often cartoonishly…
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…
Here’s What to Know About Lebensborn, the Nazi Human Selective Breeding and Child Abduction Program
The Nazis believed in "good blood" that ought to be sought out, preserved, and expanded, and in "bad blood", which…
10 Facts in the Appalling True Story of Dick Turpin, the 18th Century Robin Hood
Dick Turpin (1705-39) was a dashing highwayman, an 18th-century Robin Hood who stole from the rich to give to the…
10 of History’s Worst Colonial Disasters
In 1800, before the Industrial Revolution, Europeans controlled 35% of world. By 1914, on the eve of World War I,…