Saigon Execution
After Nguyen Ngoc Loan raised his sidearm and shot Vietcong operative Nguyen Van Lem in the head…
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Stephen Bantu Biko
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed
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The Maharani of Nepal
The Maharani of Nepal and her ladies-in-waiting, Nepal (1885-1894)
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Five Men at Atomic Ground Zero
This bizarre and tragic bit of nuclear history happened 59 years ago today
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The Chemist’s War
The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences
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Battle of Los Angeles
The False Alarm That Left LA In Chaos…
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March 1924: Hippo cart
After considerable coaching at the hands of an animal trainer, “Lotus,” a circus hippopotamus…
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Greece Independence Fight
Here's the bullets, don't touch the columns
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Paris Massacre
When the Seine was full of bodies…
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Tesla transmitter
Tesla sitting near his transmitter in Colorado Springs…
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Wounded Knee Massacre
The slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops
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Vice President that owned his wife
The former U.S. vice president Johnson County is named after held slaves, married and fathered children with enslaved woman
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Redbad
He preferred spending eternity in Hell with his pagan ancestors
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Duke of Wellington
The Duke of Wellington sent some of his best soldiers to defend Canada in 1814
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Last Public Execution
The United States has a long history of so-called "legal" public executions. The last one was carried out in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1936…
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Eiffel Tower
View of the Eiffel Tower from the Jardins des Tuileries, in Paris…
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Alexander the Great Cities
He named more than 70 cities after himself—and one after his horse
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A Japanese death ray
Japan’s top-secret weapon inspired by Tesla’s “Death Ray”
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Madison Washington
American slave revolt leader
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Gino Bartali
The cyclist who saved Jews in wartime Italy
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Captain Morgan
Captain Morgan Actually Existed…
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The King Who Hated Coffee
Gustav III of Sweden's coffee experiment
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Antonio Gramsci Trial
"We must stop this brain from working for 20 years…"
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Tybee Bomb
For 60 Years, Nuclear Bomb Lost in Watery Grave
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Boston marathon
Get the hell ot of my race and give me those numbers…
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Japanese-Canadian internment
Remembering one of Canada's darkest hours
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Itter Castle
The strangest battle of the Second World War
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German Coast Slave Uprising
America’s Largest Slave Revolt
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The Sausage Ban
Germans were banned from eating sausages during WWI
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The steamboat Sultana
The steamboat Sultana was a Mississippi River paddlewheeler, destroyed in an explosion on 27 April, 1865…
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Uncle Sam Conscience Fund
The American government had a "Conscience Fund"
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Queen of the Mist
The Forgotten Heroine of Niagara
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Bride Auctions
The Babylonian Marriage Market…
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Elmira Civil War Prison Camp
When Hell Was in Elmira
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The Pig War
The most curious conflict between Canada and the United States
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Japanese Eugenic Sterilization
Forced sterilization during post-war era in Japan
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The Pastry War
The First French Intervention in Mexico
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Typhoid Mary
Mary Mallon and the history of typhoid fever
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Bytown
The capital city, Ottawa, was originally named Bytown…
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William Carney
The first black soldier to earn the Medal of Honor
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Zeppelin Citta di Jesi
Last mission of the Italian air ship "Citta di Jesi"
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Chinese Militia
Chinese militia armed with clubs and shields stand ready for battle in 1860 during the Second Opium War against Britain and France…
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Nevada Tests
From 1951 to 1992 the U.S. ran almost 1,000 atomic bomb tests in a test site in the Nevada Desert
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Atlantis
Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher, wrote of a great civilization called Atlantis
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Cat Burning
Ritualistic Cat Torture Was Once a Form of Town Fun
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Monkey Trial
Scopes Monkey Trial: Science on the Stand
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Napoleon war with rabbits
History tells us that Napoleon’s most upsetting defeat came at Waterloo. Or it may have occurred eight years earlier, after the French emperor was attacked by a relentless horde of rabbits.
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Aircraft Detection
How incoming enemy aircraft were detected before the invention of radar…
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Bathing Machine
Bathing Machines, at the beach…
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King Henry VI
King Henry VI suffered from a ‘sleeping sickness’ that remains mysterious to this day…
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Tunguska Explosion
On June 30, 1908, an explosion that was equal to more than 2,000 atomic bombs…
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Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
This gory plane crash has all the trappings of your worst nightmare, save for the miraculous ending…
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The Confederate Giant
Remembering the Tallest Man in the American Civil War
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Knocker Uppers
Waking up the workers in industrial Britain
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Will Purvis Murder Trial
Will Purvis told the jury he would "live longer than the lot of them."
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Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette's last words - "Pardon me, sir. I meant not to do it."
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Shona People
They are a tribe part of Bantu and a very powerful tribe
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Mustache Cups
Moustache Cups were invented in the mid 1800’s…
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Nobel Peace Prize Nominees
Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin were all nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Korean War
The U.S. dropped more ordnance on Korea than in the entire Pacific during WWII
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Vin Mariani
Vin Mariani was a mixture of wine and cocaine
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Fratricide
The history of fratricide in the Ottoman Empire
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American Civil War Child Soldiers
Children Fought in the US Civil War by the Hundreds of Thousand
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Kiddo the Cat
Kiddo’s failed trip across the Atlantic
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Most Successful Pirate in History
The world’s most successful pirate in history was a lady
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A Railway from Sea to Sea
A Railway from Sea to Sea - British Columbia joined Canada in 1871 after Ottawa promised to build a railway to the West Coast.
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Animals on Trial
Strange justice: the animals who went on trial in the Middle Ages
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Roman Dodecahedra
Mysterious Roman Dodecahedrons
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Car
The number plate of the car carrying Franz Ferdinand when he was shot bears a strange coincidence to the end of the Great War.
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Toronto's Disastrous First Hanging
A gruesome history of capital punishment in Toronto
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The Cadaver Synod
Pope Stephen VI dug up his predecessor's corpse and put it on trial.
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James Forten
Born to a poor family of American sailmakers, James Forten volunteered to join the fight for independence when he was just 14
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Roman Timekeeping
Very few Roman hours lasted an hour
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Battle of Bamber Bridge
White soldiers declared war on their Black counterparts in an ugly incident from WWII
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Adolf Hitler’s half-nephew
William Hitler served in the US Navy during World War II
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Jonestown Massacre
Perhaps one of the most disturbing events in modern history, the Jonestown Massacre was…
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Green Army
Green armies fought against both the Bolsheviks and the White Army
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Cabanatuan
It’s known as the most epic and complex mission of World War II. In January, 1945…
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German U-boats
Only one out of every four men serving on U-boats survived
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George Washington
George Washington Never Had Wooden Teeth…
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Tsarists Russia convicts
The exiles and convicts of Tsarists Russia, 1885
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Romulus and Remus
According to Roman mythology, the story of these twin brothers tells of the origins of Rome.
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Poena cullei
The bizarre ancient Roman punishment reserved for parricide
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Hitler's bunker (Führerbunker)
One of the first photos that was taken inside of Hitler's bunker…
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Egyptians Pets
Egyptians kept many animals as pets
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Claudette Colvin
Before there was Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin
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Old Photography
This is one of the, if not the, oldest known photograph of…
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