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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?
Humor That Backfired: Johnny Carson Was Slapped Silly For Cracking Gay Jokes About Wayne Newton
Rosalind P Walter, the Real Life Rosie the Riveter, and the Background of an Iconic Image
Looty: Queen Victoria’s Looted Dog
What Was the Historic Context of the Old Testament’s Plagues of Egypt Narrative?
Midas, and the Real Life King Who Inspired the Mythology
‘Royal Fowl’: For Centuries, All of England’s Swans Have Belonged to the King or Queen
Lee Marvin Excelled in Tough Guy Roles Because He Had Been a Real Life Tough Guy WWII US Marine
The Khawarij: Al Qaeda’s Medieval Terrorist Ancestors
Wilhelm Voigt: Drifter Who Robbed a Town By Dressing in an Officer’s Uniform and Ordering Officials to Hand Him the Treasury’s Contents
Golden Girl Bea Arthur Was a WWII US Marine Sergeant
‘Big Pier’ Gerolfs Donia: The Sixteenth Century Seven-Foot Avenger
Urwa ibn al Ward: Ancient Arabian Robin Hood Bandit-Poet, and Prince of Vagabonds
Ancient Physicians Swore by Crocodile Dung Contraceptives and Poop as Medicine
Public Panics: The Great Poisoning Scare of Milan
The Military Entertainment Complex: Hollywood’s and the Pentagon’s Mutually Beneficial Relationship
When Exxon-Mobil’s Predecessor Bragged About Melting Glaciers
The Paratrooper Who Led His Men Into Battle Carrying an Umbrella
The Great Moon Hoax: The Nineteenth Century Discovery of Life and Civilization on the Moon
A Tragic Love That Scandalized a Country and Ended in Execution: Camila O’Gorman and Father Ladislao Guiterrez
Sulayk ibn Salaka: Ancient Arabia’s Ferocious Black Bandit-Poet
Medieval Eel Money: When Eels Were Used as Currency
Folklore and Mythology: Disney’s Hercules vs the Hercules of Ancient Greek Myths
The Eighteenth Century Wig-Snatching Crime Wave
Medieval Divorce Duels: When Couples Had to Fight Their Way Out of Unhappy Marriages
Audrey Hepburn vs the Nazis: The Hollywood Icon Was Once a Child Courier for WWII’s Dutch Resistance
Shanfara: The Vengeful Bandit-Poet Who Continued to Kill Enemies After His Death
The Ancient Romans Cleaned Their Teeth and Clothes With Urine
The Library of Assyrian King Ashurbanipal: Bible Baddie, Ancient Conqueror, and Nerdy Intellectual
Myths and Realities: Did Betsy Ross Make the First Stars and Stripes Flag?
The Math Mistake That Made Spinach a Super Food
Agnes Sorel: The Royal Mistress Who Started a Bare Boob Fashion Fad
The Student Sit-Ins That Desegregated Nashville’s Lunch Counters
Ta’abbata Sharran: The Fierce Ancient Arabian Bandit Whose Own Mother Wanted Dead
After the Fame – George Murphy, From Tinseltown to the US Senate
Bill Mauldin: The WWII Cartoonist Who Enraged General George S. Patton
Little Boys Wore Dresses for Most of History – When Did We Start Clothing Them in Pants and Shorts?
Weird Deaths: Actor Albert Dekker’s Extraordinarily Bizarre Demise
Folklore and Mythology: The Origin of Dragons
Folklore and Mythology: Amazons in Wonder Woman vs Amazons in Ancient Greek Myths
Beating the Bobbies as Sport: Victorian Londoners Used to Attack Police for Fun
What is the Historic Context of the Bible’s Noah’s Flood Narrative?
Eerie Accounts of Queen Catherine Howard’s Screaming Ghost at Hampton Court Palace
Tolkien and C.S. Lewis vs Disney: The Creators of The Hobbit and Narnia Hated Mickey Mouse’s Maker
Victorians Feared that High Train Speeds Might Make Women’s Uteruses Fly Out of Their Bodies
The Sa’alik: The Ancient Arabia Robin Hood Bandits Who Robbed the Rich to Help the Poor
Beefs: Rick James vs Prince, and the Time the Super Freak Wanted to Beat Up the Purple One
Moral Panics: The 1919 Red Scare and the Government Abuses That Birthed the American Civil Liberties Union
Myths and Realities – Were the Middle Ages as Drab as Depicted by Hollywood?
What Was the Historic Context of the Old Testament’s Punishment of Lot’s Wife Narrative?
Pink Became a Feminine Color Relatively Recently
Phone Booth Stuffing: The Viral Fad that Took College Campuses by Storm in 1959
When Frank Sinatra Was Arrested for Seduction
The Hitler Diaries Hoax: When Respectable Publications Fell for a Forgery
Dick Rowe, the Record Label Exec Who Made the Music Industry’s Worst Business Decision
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