# politics
10 Fascinating Things About China’s First Emperor that Will Leave You Speechless
China's first emperor, Chin Shi Huang Di, was one of history's most extraordinary rulers. On the one hand, he possessed…
10 Tales From the Relationships Of Our Founding Fathers
Despite the morals expressed by the Founding Fathers in the writings left for posterity the majority of them were a…
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…
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…
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…
10 Presidents You Didn’t Know Were Shaped by the Freemasons
The earliest known records of Freemasonry in North America date from the second decade of the eighteenth century in eastern…
10 Major Historical Mistakes That Changed the World Forever
We all make mistakes from time to time. Luckily, most times when we screw up, the consequences of our mistakes…