Why Pharaoh Ramesses III's Family Might Have Had Him Killed
There tend to be a lot of people who are jealous of those in power and will do anything to wrest control.
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Read MoreThe Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II is responsible for the Ishtar Gate and perhaps the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. He's also associated with a mental illness.
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Read MoreThe U.S. government was so scared of Communism in the mid-20th century that it used spies to inject propaganda into American news organizations.
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Read MoreThe "Black Sea Deluge" theory posits that the Mediterranean spilled over into the Black Sea with a force that inspired ancient tales of massive floods.
Read MoreCzar Nicholas II was the oldest of five children, with his youngest sister being Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna. She would not meet her brother's cruel fate.
Read MoreIn August of 2021, workers doing exploratory digging unearthed a mass grave that could contain as many as 20,000 human corpses.
Read MoreIn 1725, a hunting party stumbled upon a young boy, possibly abandoned in the forest as an infant, in what is now northern Germany's Hertswold forest.
Read MoreIt's not uncommon presidents have regrets about their time in office. Andrew Jackson's was interesting, to say the least. It will probably surprise you.
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Read MoreThe global atrocities committed before and during World War II are too numerous to quantify and were carried out by many political and military leaders.
Read MoreThe events that unfolded after Lincoln was shot involved a grand plot aimed at multiple political assassinations and a fiery conclusion to the manhunt.
Read MoreThe assassination of President John F. Kennedy is one of the most infamous events in American history. Here's what JFK was doing in the days before his death.
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Read MoreThe concept of reincarnation is believed by many worldwide, but one of the oldest religious texts in the world, the Bible, seems to leave it out.
Read MoreIn 1847, his wife, Virginia, died at the age of 24 due to tuberculosis. Her death utterly devastated Poe, who then struggled both financially and physically.
Read MoreAdolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, is known as one of the most murderous figures in history and presided over the deaths of millions.
Read MoreThe space race pitted two of the world's superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, in an astronomical competition during the Cold War.
Read MoreDid the mafia start as organized crime networks of drug trafficking, racketeering, protection money, baseball bats to kneecaps, and so on? Is it truly savage?
Read MoreThe Amish are exempted from Compulsory Education Laws and educate children only up until the 8th grade.
Read MoreThomas Edison's son sent Henry Ford one of the test tubes found in the room where the inventor died in 1931.
Read MoreA missing word during printing resulted in The Wicked Bible, which commanded Catholics to commit adultery.
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