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Cleopatra Lived Closer to the Computer Age than to the Pyramids, and Other Atypical History Facts
We all have mental images of what we picture history was like. Implanted by schools, history books, conventional wisdom, popular…
The First ‘Confidence Man’ And Other Historic Cheats
Since the dawn of history – and probably even back when our hominid ancestors were still figuring out the whole…
D-Day’s Black Barrage Balloon Operators and Other Lesser Known WWII Facts
The Second World War was so enormous that many or most of its details are little known to most of…
Lesser Known Facts About World War II
World War II, the greatest conflict in human history, was fought on a massive scale that boggles the imagination, with…
Terrible Schemes that Governments and People Have Tried
Most brainstorms come nowhere near to producing useful and practical ideas. Indeed, if we are honest with ourselves, most brainstorms…
The ‘Baron’ of Arizona and Other Historic Hucksters
Back in the 19th century, a huckster laid claim to most of Arizona. In of itself, that would not be…
A Sports Dispute Started the Cuban Missile Crisis and Other Odd Facts
From the unexpectedly significant role Cubans’ love of baseball had in shaping the Cold War, to the current popular drink…
How the US Navy Helped Find Titanic and Other Sunken Ships
When Dr. Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute announced to the world that the lost Royal Mail Ship…
Mistakes That Helped Shape U.S. into What it Is Today
Countries, like people, are the sum total of the experiences encountered en route to the present, be such experiences good,…
Titanic II is Coming, Here’s All the Information So Far
The “unsinkable” RMS Titanic began its maiden voyage on April 10, 1912, from Southampton in Hampshire, England to New York…