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Things That Weren’t Thought Through: WWII’s Sticky Bomb Stuck to Users’ Hands Once Activated
Heraclitus of Ephesus: The Philosopher Eaten Alive by Dogs While Immobilized in a Cow Dung Body Cast
Leslie Harvey: The Rocker Electrocuted to Death Live Onstage
The A15 Crusader, Britain’s Most Controversial WWII Tank
The Ides of March and Julius Caesar’s Assassination: A Killing’s Unintended Consequences
WWII’s Boulton Paul Defiant Turret Fighter: An Innovative Idea Based on Bad Assumptions
Chin Shi Huangdi’s Death: The Emperor Who Poisoned Himself Seeking Immortality Drugs
Laurentius Hornaeus and the Torsaker Witch Trials: The Pastor Who Got Dozens of Innocents Executed
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
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
Shinichi Fujimura: The Rock Star Archaeologist Exposed as Archaeology’s Biggest Fraud
Humbug Billy and the 1858 Bradford Sweets Poisoning: A Disaster That Shocked – and Transformed – Britain
The Revenge of Phanes of Halicarnassus, the Ancient World’s Most Influential Mercenary
The Great Molasses Flood: When Boston Was Engulfed in a Sticky Tsunami
Ten Cent Beer Night Riot: The Worst Promotion in American Sports History
Aldrich Ames: The KGB’s Most Damaging Mole Inside the CIA
Michael Fagan: The Disturbed Man Who Broke Into Queen Elizabeth II’s Bedroom
WWII Battle of Los Angeles Panic: The Night LA Was Engulfed by Hysteria and Wild Antiaircraft Firing
The 1916 Columbus Raid: When Pancho Villa Attacked an American Town
WWII Fighters – LaGG-3: The Disappointing Soviet Wooden Warplane
The V-3 Cannon: The Super Gun With Which Hitler Wanted to Destroy London
The Raid on the Medway: When the Dutch Humiliated the English Navy in its Home
Shady Nineteenth Century Archaeologist Eugene Boban and the Crystal Skulls Hoax
The Texas City Disaster: America’s Deadliest Industrial Accident Wrecked a City and Killed Hundreds
Matthew Hopkins, the Self-Proclaimed ‘Witch Finder General’ Who Got Dozens of Innocents Executed for Witchcraft
The Son Tay Raid: A Daring Special Forces Assault to Rescue American POWs in North Vietnam
Rock & Roll’s First ‘Wild Man’ Jerry Lee Lewis Wrecked His Career by Marrying His Thirteen-Year-Old Cousin
The Destruction of Convoy PQ 17: One of WWII’s Worst Allied Naval Disasters
Yisrael Bar, the Enigmatic Soviet Spy Who Infiltrated Israel’s Top Security Circles
Before He Committed Genocide, Pol Pot Used to Be Known as ‘A Very Nice Man’
The Irish Fright of 1688: When Fears of Rampaging Irishmen Sent England Into Mass Hysteria
‘I Have Gazed Upon the Face of Agamemnon’: Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in Greece
The Anschluss: Hitler’s Annexation of Austria, and the Appeasement that Emboldened Him to Launch WWII
10 of History’s Worst Examples of Bad Generalship
The Bay of Pigs: Mistakes That Transformed an Invasion Into a Fiasco
Trofim Lysenko: Stalin’s Favorite Biologist, and His Quack Pseudoscience That Killed Millions
‘Don’t Worry About It’: Kermit Tyler, the Officer Who Ignored Radar Warning of Japanese Planes Approaching Pearl Harbor
The War of the Currents: Nikola Tesla’s Revenge on Thomas Edison
The Devastatingly Deadly 1918 Philadelphia Parade That Was Held in the Middle of a Pandemic
The Decca Records Exec Who Passed on Jimi Hendrix – and It Wasn’t Even His Biggest Mistake
‘Mokusatsu’ and the Translation Error That Led to the Atomic Bombing of Japan
Folklore and Mythology: The Real Life Origins of the King Arthur Legend
Heinrich Schliemann: The Archaeologist Who Discovered – and Destroyed – Homer’s Troy
The Tragic Death of Albert Peter Dewey, America’s First Fatality in Vietnam
Who Shot Down the Red Baron? An Enduring Aviation Controversy
When Emperor Constantine the Great Was Manipulated Into Executing His Son Crispus
Petr Mikhailovich Borisov, the Soviet Scientist Who Wanted to Melt the Arctic Ice Cap
Ignaz Semmelweis, the Doctor Whose Discovery Revolutionized Medicine, Saved Millions – and Made His Colleagues Hate Him
Humor That Backfired: Johnny Carson Was Slapped Silly For Cracking Gay Jokes About Wayne Newton
WWI’s Chauchat: One of History’s Worst Ever Firearms
Things That Weren’t Thought Through: The Upgrade That Sank the Mary Rose, King Henry VIII’s Flagship
Myths and Realities: Just How Short Was Napoleon?
‘The Saipan Stare’ Weary Marine Photo, and its Unfortunate Controversy
Dan Bullock: The Fifteen-Year-Old Marine Who Became the Youngest US Serviceman Killed in Vietnam
Public Panics: The Great Poisoning Scare of Milan
When Exxon-Mobil’s Predecessor Bragged About Melting Glaciers
The WWII Intelligence Screwup That Almost Placed New Zealand Under Martial Law
History’s Deadliest Fart Killed More Than 10,000 People
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