# politics
Oddities, Misconceptions, and Facts About the Middle Ages that Made it So Delightfully Strange
In Middle Ages Europe, getting a divorce was next to impossible, and the only way out of a marriage was…
These Stars Traded Hollywood Glamor for Wartime Glory
Movie star Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993) turned heads on screen and in real life with her radiant beauty, grace,…
The Civil War Had a Senior Citizen Regiment and Other Amazing Obscure Facts
Early in the US Civil War, enthusiasm was high to serve in a conflict that many assumed would be both…
Mad Myths in History that Just Won’t Go Away
Saint Patrick’s biography has many great stories. Unfortunately, some of the best ones are untrue or are greatly exaggerated. And…
The 1970s Witchcraft Trial and Other Oddities in Witch History
The persecution of women for witchcraft sounds like the kind of backwards stuff that belongs in Colonial Salem or 1600s…
These Historic Figures Really Deserved the Bad Karma They Got
Karma can be funny. Take that time in 1966 when John Lennon compared the Beatles’ popularity to that of Jesus.…
How Lies Surrounding the Alamo took Root and Other Historic Myths
Many historic account has been widely disseminated for generations, only to get exposed as a myth when examined carefully. Take…
The Greatest and Most Cunning Military Innovators
William Tecumseh Sherman might have been America’s most influential general when it comes to lasting legacies. War was always horrible,…
Historic Uprisings that Shook Powerful Governments
In the fourth century AD, a religious dispute over a bishop sparked a massive revolt against the Roman Empire. Led…
Unexpected and Surprising Facts About England’s Iconic Queens
In 2018, a Moroccan newspaper made an assertion that created quite a stir: that it had traced the lineage of…