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The Weirdest Ways Children Were Treated in History
Children usually bring out people’s protective instincts, triggering a natural desire to treat them kindly. Throughout history, however, many unfortunate children, whether through ignorance, indifference, or deliberate malice, were unprotected, treated, unkindly,…
Ancient History
40 Things About The Outlandish Math Cult Leader, and Other Unusual Facts From the Ancient World
Most of us know Pythagoras from grade school geometry, as that ancient guy who came up with that theory about…
Ancient History
History’s Deadliest Relatives
We can easily choose our friends, but choosing our relatives is a different matter. That is sometimes unfortunate, seeing as…
Ancient History
Without a Trace: 10 People the Romans Tried to Erase from History
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past”. So reads the slogan George Orwell…