Times Hamilton Lied To You About History
The musical Hamilton deserves every bit of its status as cultural phenomenon, but it plays fast and loose with historical fact. Here are a few times Hamilton lied to you about history.
Read MoreThe musical Hamilton deserves every bit of its status as cultural phenomenon, but it plays fast and loose with historical fact. Here are a few times Hamilton lied to you about history.
Read MoreThis month, mysterious packages containing seeds have been appearing on doorsteps and in mailboxes across the country containing 'mystery seeds' from China. What ever could they mean?
Read MoreWhen you read about the people who lived in Greece in ancient times, it's almost always about men. The women in ancient Greece also had rich lives, but how they lived those lives depended on where they were. Women in Sparta, for example, had a lot of freedoms their counterparts in Athens never had.
Read MoreWho really was Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin? How can we define him, besides "Russian guy with a sinister stare" and "staple antagonist in comic books and cartoons?"
Read MoreThere is a rigorous investigative process involved with determining whether or not someone's reported miracles warrant their canonization.
Read MoreDuring World War II, Japan experimented on people in their infamous Unit 731. This is a look inside Japan's horrifying WWII biological warfare project.
Read MoreChupacabra means "goat sucker." And now that we have your attention...
Read MoreOne multi-eyed monster of Japan, however, was self-named and real: the Monster with 21 Faces (and presumably 42 eyes).
Read MoreIf you think checkers hasn't been around in some form since ancient times, you better check yourself.
Read MoreOh, the 1980s. A decade full of neon clothes, mullets, and the Brat Pack. Let's learn some things that Americans in the 1980s couldn't live without.
Read MoreThe 1960s was truly an era of change and new "inventions" to buy. Here are some things Americans in the 1960s couldn't live without.
Read MoreWeighing 20 tons and standing over sixty feet tall, the sarsens that form Stonehenge's main enclosure have inspired many questions, like Ylvis's "Stonehenge."
Read MoreWho gets to blow their own horn (er, bagpipes) over most fearsome clan?
Read MoreTenzing Norgay, the legendary Sherpa who made history scaling Mount Everest, remains a mystery to many today. Here's how he became a mountaineering legend.
Read MoreThere once lived a man richer than anyone else who has ever lived. His name was Mansa Musa.
Read MoreWhen you think of vampires, do you envision them stalking down a dark alley in England, or hiding away in an Eastern European castle? Or, perhaps, do you picture vampires frolicking about the picturesque cities of New England, amidst its mountains and gorgeous coastlines?
Read MorePhrenology, if you're not familiar, is a thoroughly debunked old-timey pseudoscience.
Read MoreSam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, set in 1913, is a 1969 film about the death of the American Frontier, but it has nothing to do with history.
Read MoreTreasure hunters have inspired books and movies throughout history. Who wouldn't want to strike it rich by finding a pirate's buried treasure or taste immortality from the Fountain of Youth or the Holy Grail? But it's not easy. These are some of the most notable treasure hunters in history.
Read MoreEveryone knows that in the Bible, Cain killed Abel, but here's what nobody told you about Cain and Abel.
Read MorePicasso was mainly a painter, dabbling in sculpture and other media, and he certainly didn't lead a boring life. Here's the messed up truth about Pablo Picasso.
Read MoreSpoiler alert: Things didn't end well for the man who killed Jesse James.
Read MoreJ. Robert Oppenheimer gave the atomic bomb life while becoming Death. This is the grim life of the man who created the atomic bomb.
Read MoreFor some people's money, you just can't find a more hellish spot than Stull, Kansas, a small, unincorporated community in the Northeast quadrant of the Sunflower State, where the local cemetery reportedly houses a gateway to the fiery inferno of the underworld.
Read MoreToday, when you think of the richest people in the world, billionaire businessmen and tech giants come to mind, like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett. But have you ever wondered who the richest people were throughout history?
Read MoreIn ancient India, women's roles have been subject to wide variation, with their rights gradually being withdrawn as time went by.
Read MoreThe world of art is filled with messed up stories. Here are some famous works of art with messed up backstories.
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