# History
12 Details About Rasputin’s Controversial Life Not Many People Know About
Rasputin can be defined as many things. He was an illiterate Siberian peasant, charlatan, mystic, holy wanderer, faith healer, blasphemer,…
12 of History’s Most Baffling Mass Hysteria Outbreaks
Mass hysteria, or collective delusion outbreaks, are more common than people realize. Most are familiar with some of history's most…
When the Lower Class Fights Back: 12 of History’s Greatest Peasant Revolts
Most people today grew up and live in societies in which concepts such as egalitarianism and equal treatment before the…
11 Sleepwalking Killers from History Will Make You Want to Bar Your Doors At Night
Sleepwalking, or somnambulism, is a sleeping disorder within the parasomnia family, whose sufferers act while in a halfway stage between…
12 Military Deceptions that Changed the Course of History Forever
Military deception is the art of misleading an enemy during wartime, via information warfare and disinformation, psychological operations, manipulating and…
12 Historically Important Perverts and How They Changed the World
To an extent - great or small - everybody has a bit of a deviant within, with perverse urges eager…
12 of History’s Most Notorious Pirates Will Make You Want to Stay off the Seven Seas
Piracy - the act of violent robbery by seaborne attackers against ships or coastal areas in order to seize valuables…
12 of History’s Greatest Back Stabbers and their Dramatic Consequences
According to folk etymology, the term "double-cross", as in deception by some kind of double-dealing, originated with the 18th century…
12 of the Most Unbelievably Strange Deaths of the Renaissance
The one commonality uniting all of mankind, regardless of time, place, race or sex is that sooner or later, everybody…
Vintage Photographs of Artificial Limbs will Change the Way You See them Forever
The earliest recorded prosthetic belonged to the warrior queen Vishpala in the Hindu text the Rigveda. The Egyptians were early…