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The Grumman F8F Bearcat: The Pinnacle of Piston Engine Fighter Design and Technology
Charles Vane: The Fierce and Unstable Pirate Who Scared Other Pirates
Chin Shi Huangdi’s Death: The Emperor Who Poisoned Himself Seeking Immortality Drugs
Edward Colquhoun Charlton Was So Courageous that the *Enemy* Recommended Him for a Victoria Cross
The Shaggs: A Prophecy, a Dad’s Delusions, and an Awful Album that Became a Cult Classic
WWII Bombers – The Polikarpov Po-2: The Humble Biplane that Kept the Germans Awake at Night
Laurentius Hornaeus and the Torsaker Witch Trials: The Pastor Who Got Dozens of Innocents Executed
The Underappreciated Valentine, Britain’s Most Produced WWII Tank
Prohibition that Worked: China’s 1950s Anti-Opium Campaign, History’s Most Successful Anti-Drug Effort
The 1974 White House Helicopter Incident: When a Disturbed Army Private Landed a Stolen Huey on the White House Lawn
La Nueve: The Anarchists Who Spearheaded the Liberation of Paris in WWII
Chappie James: America’s First Black Four-Star General
Stalin’s Soviet Millionaires: High Rollers in the Communist ‘Workers’ Paradise’
WWII Bombers: The Mitsubishi Ki-21, Japan’s Early Mainstay Bomber
Bloody April, 1917: British Airmen’s Grimmest Stretch of WWI
Civil War Child Soldier John Cook Joined the Union Army Aged Thirteen, Won a Medal of Honor When He Was Fifteen
‘He Never Killed a Man That Didn’t Need Killing’: Wild West Gunslinger Clay Allison
WWII Bombers – The Tupolev SB: Backbone of the Soviet Air Force at War’s Start
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, America’s Key Fighter for Most of the Cold War
Project Needles: When the US Seeded Space With Hundreds of Millions of Tiny Needles
Eugene Bullard: The First African American Fighter Pilot Flew for France in WWI When America’s Military Wouldn’t Have Him
Flying Donkey: The Polikarpov I-16, Backbone of the Soviet Air Force at the Start of WWII
The Praetorian Throne Auction: When the Praetorian Guard Sold Rome’s Throne to the Highest Bidder
WWII Fighters – The MiG-3: A Great High Altitude Interceptor in a Low Altitude War
Ford’s Edsel Debacle: One of the Biggest Flops in Business History
“Tell Them I Said Something!” – Pancho Villa’s Last Words
Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Squadron: America’s WWII Black Pilots
The Hammersmith Ghost Hysteria: A Public Panic that Led to a Landmark Murder Case
The Pioneer Probes Plaque, and the Controversy About Sharing Earth’s Address With the Universe
The Shrigley Abduction: When New Zealand’s Founder Kidnapped and Coerced a 15 y.o. Heiress Into Marriage
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it In Their Pants: George H. W. Bush’s Affairs
The Tycoon and the Teenager: When Actress Jane Greer Rejected His Advances, Howard Hughes Bought a Studio to Wreck Her Career
Ax Murderer John Lynch, Australia’s Outback Serial Killer
William Henry Johnson, the “Black Death” Whose WWI Heroism Was Overlooked for Nearly a Century
Girolamo Savonarola and the Bonfire of the Vanities: A Maoist Cultural Revolution in 1400s Florence
Myths and Realities: Just How Real Was Hollywood’s ‘The Alamo’?
WWI’s Harlem Hellfighters: The African Americans Who Fought for Freedom Abroad While it Was Denied them at Home
Bela Lugosi, ‘Hollywood’s Prince of Darkness’, Fought Real Life Monsters as an Antifascist Labor Activist
Epaminondas of Thebes: Ancient Greece’s Greatest Liberator
‘The Screaming Mimi’: WWII’s Terrifying 15 cm Nebelwerfer 41 Multiple Rocket Launcher
Megastar Josephine Baker Risked Her Life for the French Resistance to Spy on the Nazis in WWII
Shinichi Fujimura: The Rock Star Archaeologist Exposed as Archaeology’s Biggest Fraud
Convoy HG 76: First Allied Victory Against Hitler’s U-boats, and Turning Point in the Battle of the Atlantic
Arrhichion of Phigalia: The Ancient Athlete Who Was Crowned Olympic Champion Despite Being Dead
The Norrmalmstorg Robbery: The Bungled Bank Robbery that Birthed Stockholm Syndrome
Shoe Superstitions Around the World: From Offensive to Bringers of Good Fortune
The Original Black Panthers: WWII’s African-American 761st Tank Battalion
Wild West Outlaws: Charlie Bowdre, the Regulator Turned Cattle Rustler
Marshal Davout, the ‘Iron Marshal’: Napoleon’s Uncharismatic but Most Effective Military Commander
The Avro 504: World War I’s Most Produced Warplane
The Medieval Raven King and His Mercenary Black Army: Matthias Corvinus vs the Ottoman Turks
The Carro Armato M13/40: Italy’s Most Important WWII Tank
The Fokker Scourge: The WWI Stretch of German Aerial Dominance that Birthed Fighter Combat Principles
Al Blozis, the NFL All-Pro Who Gave Up Football and His Life to Fight the Nazis
Humbug Billy and the 1858 Bradford Sweets Poisoning: A Disaster That Shocked – and Transformed – Britain
Iva Toguri: The American Woman Stranded in WWII Japan Who Became ‘Tokyo Rose’
Britain’s Iconic Avro Lancaster Dropped the Most Bomb Tonnage of any WWII Bomber
Ed “Too Tall” Freeman: The Heroic Helicopter Pilot Who Saved Dozens of Lives in Vietnam
The Flying Gang and Republic of Pirates: When Pirates Took Over the Bahamas
The Zanclean Flood: When a Dried Out Mediterranean Suddenly Refilled in a Massive Megaflood
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