# History
10 American Heroes of the First World War You Should Know About
By the time American troops arrived on the Western Front during the First World War the Empires of Europe had…
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 the Most Intense Moments From Theodore Roosevelt’s Life
It is fitting indeed that one of the massive granite heads looking out over the Black Hills from Mt. Rushmore…
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…
Big Bastards: 10 of History’s Most Influential Illegitimate Children
Throughout most of history and across most cultures, calling somebody a "bastard" has been used as an insult to stigmatize…
10 of History’s Biggest Badasses
What makes a badass? Depends on one's definition and frame of reference. Generally, a badass is somebody who is tough…
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…
10 of the Most Satisfying Times Somebody Really Stuck it to Hitler
Few people in history deserved to have somebody stick it to them as much Adolph Hitler deserved it. In the…
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…