Here's How Depeche Mode Got Their Name
Although its name derives from modern French, there has been an existing layer of controversy surrounding how Depeche Mode got its name.
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These Are The 5 Most Valuable McDonald's Happy Meal Toys Ever
It's a conundrum. How do you make someone happy? Happy Hogan from the MCU is happy because Jon Favreau gets an executive producer credit no matter what. As for Happy Meals, they took the easy route: include one wad of plastic in every box of salty meat.
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Here's Why The Creation Of The Post Office Was So Controversial
It's perfectly reasonable to blame the banal marketing of Silicon Valley for people's inability to differentiate a new way to add middlemen into their lives, and the creation of a truly radical space. The birth of the post office dramatically changed how people access information.
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What Happened To Peter Green After He Quit Fleetwood Mac?
The late blues guitarist Peter Green, born Peter Allen Greenbaum, is most often remembered for his early contributions to Fleetwood Mac, years before internal strife and relationship dramas would fuel the band's musical career.
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Creepy Tales Of Hospital Ghosts
From Civil War ghosts to asylum inmates, people believe some hospitals have admitted patients that never left. Here are some creepy tales of hospital ghosts.
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What You Didn't Know About The World's Greatest Female Sniper
Lyudmila Pavlichenko, generally considered the world's most -- "successful" doesn't seem quite right; maybe "effective" -- sniper, killed 309 Germans on the Eastern Front in the earlier days of World War II, defending Russian soil to the best of her abilities.
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The Hidden Meaning Of The Beatles' Run For Your Life
Run For Your Life was written by John Lennon in 1965 and appeared on the band's album, Rubber Soul. The song has an upbeat, fast tempo, but it certainly doesn't have an upbeat topic if you take the time to really listen to the malicious lyrics.
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The Truth About Jimmy Carter's UFO Sighting
You'll be thrilled to learn that these United States were overseen by a man who claimed to have spotted a flying saucer in Calhoun County, Georgia. The claim, detailed in a remarkably official looking report to the International UFO Bureau in Oklahoma, was made by one Jimmy Carter.
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The Creepy History Of England's Black Monk House
When Joe and Jean Pritchard moved into their recently bought 30 East Drive in Pontefract with their two children, 13-year-old Diane and 15-year-old Philip, and Jean's mum Sarah in August 1966, they seemed to have lucked out on a picturesque house in West Yorkshire. But things got creepy, quickly.
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Here's How James Cagney Made His Fortune During The Depression
Cagney once said, "Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life." He died in 1986, age 86. And rich.
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The Messed Up Truth About The Louisiana Purchase
Like much of American history, the story of the Louisiana Purchase is much darker and more complicated than what's taught in schools. It paved the way for the oppression of Native Americans, the expansion of slavery, and even the Civil War. This is the messed up truth about the Louisiana Purchase.
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Humans May Have Settled In North America Earlier Than We Think
A recent discovery in Mexico, however, made only in June of 2020, may throw this entire, neatly crafted timetable on its head, and place humanity in the Americas as far back as 33,150 years ago.
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The Real-Life Event That The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Is Based On
Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the most memorable — and disturbing — horror movie villains in the modern pantheon. The piggy noise-making, mask-of-human-skin-wearing recluse is so iconic that it's hard to imagine chainsaws were ever not associated with maniacal lunatics.
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The Crazy True Story Of The Hitler Diaries
There are plenty of historical records as we get into the modern era, and World War II is no exception. Some things were destroyed in the course of war, but much remained. Yet certainly a tantalizing object would have been the personal diaries of the leader of the Third Reich: Adolf Hitler.
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The Crazy True Story Of The Affair Of The Poisons
The unusual case of the Affair of the Poisons has absolutely everything that an aspiring true crime enthusiast could want: royal scandal, murder most foul, and complicated last names that make you sound smart when you pronounce them correctly.
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The Story That Inspired The Blair Witch Project
The highly influential 1999 classic, The Blair Witch Project, has humble roots. First conceived in 1993 by University of Central Florida students Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, according to the BBC, the original 35-page outline led to an eight-day shoot, four years later.
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This Is How The NXIVM Cult Started
NXIVM. It's spelled like the name of Julius Caesar's spaceship. Unfortunately, it's pronounced "nexium," so when read aloud, it sounds more like a magnesium-based anti-diarrheal. And that's about the nicest thing you can say about them.
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The Untold Truth Of Wilford Brimley
Anthony Wilford Brimley was a bona fide acting legend, and the owner of the most majestic mustache this side of Sam Elliott. While he never established himself as a leading man, he made his name as one of nature's great supporting actors, and tended to elevate any project he appeared in.
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The Dark Truth Behind The Beatles' Penny Lane
There is a list, seemingly growing on a daily basis with the verdant ferocity of a kudzu vine, of seemingly random products, images, or pop culture fixtures which the generally well-meaning public has never realized perpetuate a history of racism.
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Man Trying To Send Warning Back To 1935
And so, a weary nation turns its eyes to Joe Davis, the man attempting "to break the wheel of time" by broadcasting a coded warning into the past.
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Steve Vai Is Worth A Lot More Than You Think
A casual music fan might find it difficult to get a grip on Steve Vai, simply because the virtuoso's body of work is so vast and many-faceted, yet entirely guitar-themed.
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How Isaac Newton Caught One Of History's Biggest Counterfeiters
Sir Isaac Newton may have been one of the greatest physicists of all time. After all, he discovered gravity, during quarantine, in a rather famous event involving an apple tree. But he did have other interesting hobbies, other than math, like busting counterfeiters.
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Fascinating Discoveries Made In The Jungle
Archaeologists and explorers have found tons of super cool stuff in the jungle, and seeing it for the first time? That had to be a case of not believing your eyes. Heck, some of this stuff is still hard to believe — but they're all very real. Here are some fascinating discoveries made in the jungle.
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The Crazy True Story Of The Persian Princess
The story of the Persian Princess hoax begins in 2000, when a mummy and sarcophagus showed up on the black market, sparking an international argument, lots of confused archaeologists and historians, and a story full of twists and turns. This is the crazy true story of the Persian Princess.
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Giants Might Actually Have Existed. Here's Why
Yep, giants were everywhere in ancient history. But could there be a hint of truth behind the legend? Could giants have ... actually existed?
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The Story Behind The Leatherman Of Connecticut
If you stood patiently by the right Connecticut roadside between 1883 and 1889, sooner or later a solitary figure would appear in the distance... The Leatherman.
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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.
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