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Alexander the Great and Sisygambis, Mother of Persia’s King Darius III
WWII’s Freeman Field Mutiny: The Black Officers Who Took a Stand Against Segregation
The Ides of March and Julius Caesar’s Assassination: A Killing’s Unintended Consequences
The WWII Partisan Assassination of Wilhelm Kube, Nazi Governor of Occupied Belarus
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it in Their Pants – Grover Cleveland’s Scandals: Assaulting a Date, and Grooming a Child Bride
Trial of the Six: When Greece Executed its Top Leaders for Treason and Incompetence After a Disastrous War
The Little-Known 1977 Four Day War Between Egypt and Libya: A Turning Point in Middle Eastern Geopolitics
Prohibition that Worked: China’s 1950s Anti-Opium Campaign, History’s Most Successful Anti-Drug Effort
La Nueve: The Anarchists Who Spearheaded the Liberation of Paris in WWII
Stalin’s Soviet Millionaires: High Rollers in the Communist ‘Workers’ Paradise’
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
The Praetorian Throne Auction: When the Praetorian Guard Sold Rome’s Throne to the Highest Bidder
“Tell Them I Said Something!” – Pancho Villa’s Last Words
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it In Their Pants: George H. W. Bush’s Affairs
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 Medieval Raven King and His Mercenary Black Army: Matthias Corvinus vs the Ottoman Turks
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’
The Flying Gang and Republic of Pirates: When Pirates Took Over the Bahamas
Wealthy Heiress Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army: From Kidnapped Rich Girl to Radical Revolutionary
The Revenge of Phanes of Halicarnassus, the Ancient World’s Most Influential Mercenary
The Monaghan Lunatic Asylum Soviet: The Irish Asylum that Raised a Red Flag and Declared a Soviet
Sayyida al-Hurra: The Pirate Queen Who Terrorized the Mediterranean
The Battle of Towton: The Biggest and Bloodiest Battle Fought on English Soil
‘The Poorest He Hath a Life to Live as the Greatest He’: Thomas Rainsborough, the English Civil War Radical Centuries Ahead of His Time
Jose de San Martin, the Liberator of Argentina, Chile, and Peru
HMS Dreadnought: The Battleship That Revolutionized Naval Warfare
The Story Behind an Iconic Photo: The Kent State Shootings Photo
New Holland: When the Dutch Tried to Colonize Brazil
Algernon Sidney: The Anti-Royalist Aristocrat Who Wrote the ‘Textbook of the American Revolution’
When Britain Turned on its Recent WWII Ally and Destroyed an Anchored French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir
Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin: The Teenager Who Defied Segregation
The Nika Riots: History’s Deadliest Sports Hooliganism Was Put Down by Massacring 30,000 Rioting Fans in a Stadium
The Harrying of the North: The Brutal Norman Pacification of Northern England Likened to Genocide
Semaine Sanglante, or Bloody Week: The Brutal Suppression of the Paris Commune
Stephanie St. Clair: The Harlem Gambling Queen Who Took On the Mafia and NYPD
The 1855 Toronto Clown Riot, Sparked by Clowns Beating Up Firefighters in a Brothel Brawl
The Bitch Wars: The Soviet Gulag Gang War that Killed Tens of Thousands
The Sicilian Vespers: How an Indecent Proposal Got Thousands of French Massacred in Sicily
Law Enforcement Pioneer Samuel J. Battle, the NYPD’s First Black Officer
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte: The Napoleonic French Marshal Who Became King of Sweden
The 1916 Columbus Raid: When Pancho Villa Attacked an American Town
The Forest Brothers: The Baltic States’ Anti-Soviet Guerrilla War
Typhoid Mary, and How Far Government Can Go to Protect Public Health
George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence: The Royal Executed by Drowning in a Barrel of Wine
Marshal Philippe Petain: From Revered National Hero in WWI to Reviled Traitor in WWII
The Donation of Constantine: History’s Most Impactful Forgery
Margaret of Valois and Henry of Navarre: A Marriage that Started With a Massacre and Ended in an Annulment
The Men Who Made Ancient Athens: Plato, the Western World’s Most Influential Philosopher
The Polish No. 303 Squadron: The Battle of Britain’s Deadliest Pilots
Barbara Rose Johns: The Teenager Who Set in Motion the End of Segregation
Assassin Bonnier de La Chappelle Went Before a Firing Squad Believing its Bullets Were Blanks
The Perry Expedition and the ‘Black Ships’ That Revolutionized Japan
How Hitler’s Rejection from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts Shaped His Worldview
Massacres of May 8, 1945: French Soldiers Slaughtered Thousands of Algerians as France Celebrated VE Day
The Bizarre Case of Mitsuyasu Maeno: Japanese Porn Star Who Flew a Kamikaze Plane Into a Yakuza Boss’ House to Protest an American Corruption Scandal
Eugene-Francois Vidocq, the Ex-Convict Who Founded France’s Civil Police and the World’s First Detective Agency
John Hawkwood, the English Mercenary Who Roiled Medieval Italy
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