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10 of History’s Most Fascinating Female Pirates
When many or most people think of pirates, the image that most often comes to mind is probably somebody like…
10 Little Known Criminals Who Committed History’s Worst Crimes
The annals of recorded history have no shortage of criminal monsters in human form. Evil types who enjoy inflicting pain…
These 10 Truly Bizarre Beliefs From History Will Keep You Laughing All Night
From the belief that joining the workforce and getting a job would dry out a woman's uterus, to the conviction…
10 Catastrophic Solutions That Backfired Spectacularly and Made the Problem Worse
Good intentions often go awry, and that is why the road to hell is said to be paved with them.…
10 of History’s Most Remarkable Hoaxes and Forgeries
Hoaxes are falsehoods deliberately concocted to masquerade as the truth and can range from the trivial, amounting to little more…
Wrath of Olympus: 10 Bizarre and Horrific Punishments of the Ancient Greek Gods
Examining a culture's religion, mythology, and folklore, is a great tool for shedding light on its collective worldview, and how…
Murder Incorporated: 10 Fascinating and Disturbing Things You Didn’t Know About the Mafia’s Death Squad
Over a period of nearly a decade, beginning in the early 1930s, the Italian-American mafia ran an execution squad of…
Australia Day Secrets: 12 Incredible Things You Never Knew About The First Fleet
“It is impossible to conceive a Country that promises fairer from its Situation than this of TERRA AUSTRALIS, no longer…
These 10 Remarkable and Bizarre Crimes From History Make Modern Day Criminals Look Tame
History is full of odd crimes and remarkable criminals, ranging from the grotesque to the audacious, and from criminal masterminds…
These Roving Criminals Terrorized the Plains during the 1930s
From the end of the Roaring Twenties through the Great Depression, America’s middle west was plagued by roving criminal gangs,…