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The Shaggs: A Prophecy, a Dad’s Delusions, and an Awful Album that Became a Cult Classic
Laurentius Hornaeus and the Torsaker Witch Trials: The Pastor Who Got Dozens of Innocents Executed
Prohibition that Worked: China’s 1950s Anti-Opium Campaign, History’s Most Successful Anti-Drug Effort
The Tycoon and the Teenager: When Actress Jane Greer Rejected His Advances, Howard Hughes Bought a Studio to Wreck Her Career
Girolamo Savonarola and the Bonfire of the Vanities: A Maoist Cultural Revolution in 1400s Florence
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
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
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
Business Pioneer Edna Murphey Created the Deodorant Industry by Convincing Women they Smelled Bad
The Rapier: The Deadly Duelists’ Sword
Strongwoman Katie Sandwina, the ‘Lady Hercules’ and Pioneer of Women’s Strength Sports
The Story Behind an Iconic Photo: The Kent State Shootings Photo
Clark Gable Ditched Hollywood in WWII to Fight the Nazis in a B-17
The Cangaco and Cangaceiros: The Bandits of the Brazilian Outback
Zeuxis, the Ancient Greek Painter Who Laughed Himself to Death
‘England’s Worst Husband’: The Marriage of Andrew Robinson Stoney and Mary Bowes, King Charles III’s Ancestress
The Bitch Wars: The Soviet Gulag Gang War that Killed Tens of Thousands
Cus D’Amato: Inventor of Peek-a-boo Boxing and Creator of Champions
Saint Lawrence, Patron Saint of Comedians, Cracked Jokes During His Execution
The Men Who Made Ancient Athens: Plato, the Western World’s Most Influential Philosopher
Sandblom’s Santa: How Coca-Cola Standardized the Modern Image of Santa Claus
Shady Nineteenth Century Archaeologist Eugene Boban and the Crystal Skulls Hoax
When Santa Beat Up a Priest: The Not So Nice Side of Saint Nick
How Hitler’s Rejection from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts Shaped His Worldview
Folklore and Mythology: The Origins of Santa Claus
The Saint and the Snakes: Saint Patrick Myths and Realities
Eugene-Francois Vidocq, the Ex-Convict Who Founded France’s Civil Police and the World’s First Detective Agency
The Lovable Tramp’s Kinky Side: The Scandals That Got Charlie Chaplin De Facto Deported from the US
Jack Johnson: The Unapologetically Black Heavyweight Champion Who Challenged Jim Crow Conventions
Matthew Hopkins, the Self-Proclaimed ‘Witch Finder General’ Who Got Dozens of Innocents Executed for Witchcraft
After the Fame: Danny Torrance, the Tricycle Kid From ‘The Shining’, is Now a College Professor
Swords From Around the World – The Khopesh, Ancient Egypt’s Iconic Sword
Rock & Roll’s First ‘Wild Man’ Jerry Lee Lewis Wrecked His Career by Marrying His Thirteen-Year-Old Cousin
Folklore and Mythology: The Birth and Persistence of the Atlantis Legend
Swords From Around the World: The Legendary Japanese Katana
Felt Hat Day and Straw Hat Riots: When American Cities Erupted Over Headdress
‘I Have Gazed Upon the Face of Agamemnon’: Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in Greece
Holy Dong! Fascinus: The Flying Roman Phallic God
Dance Marathons: From Cheerful Events in the Roaring Twenties, to Sad Spectacles in the Great Depression
Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Fearsome Abolitionist Muhammad Ali Was Named After
Vlad the Impaler, the Real Life Dracula, Did Far Worse Than Suck People’s Blood
Jackie Coogan, the Addams Family’s Uncle Fester, in World War II
Myths and Realities: Ninjas in Pop Culture vs Real Life Ninjas
The Decca Records Exec Who Passed on Jimi Hendrix – and It Wasn’t Even His Biggest Mistake
Folklore and Mythology: The Real Life Origins of the King Arthur Legend
Dromomania: The Uncontrollable Travel Phenomenon That Swept Nineteenth Century France
Heinrich Schliemann: The Archaeologist Who Discovered – and Destroyed – Homer’s Troy
Folklore and Mythology: The Original King Arthur Legend Was Dark and Decidedly Non-Disney
The Man Who Laughed Himself to Death Watching ‘The Goodies’
Myths and Realities: Spartan Eugenics
After the Fame – Cooter: From the Dukes of Hazzard to the House of Representatives
Who Shot Down the Red Baron? An Enduring Aviation Controversy
The Vulture War: When Naturalists Fought Over How Buzzards Find Food
Belva Ann Lockwood: The First Female Attorney to Practice Before the US Supreme Court
Folklore and Mythology: The Origins of the Robin Hood Legend
Age Is Nothing But a Number: Cora Coralina Published Her First Book in Her Seventies, and Became a Literary Icon in Her Nineties
Myths and Realities: Did Medieval People Avoid Water and Drink Alcohol Instead?
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