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John Hawkwood, the English Mercenary Who Roiled Medieval Italy
Battle of the Severn: The English Civil War’s Last Battle Was Fought in America
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
Toussaint Louverture: Leader of History’s Most Successful Slave Revolt
Afonso the Conqueror, the Medieval Founder of Portugal
August Landmesser: A Man Who Refused to Follow the Crowd and Go Along With Evil
Matthew Hopkins, the Self-Proclaimed ‘Witch Finder General’ Who Got Dozens of Innocents Executed for Witchcraft
The Krypteia: The Ancient Secret Police that Terrorized Sparta’s Slaves
The Men Who Made Ancient Athens: Peisistratos and Cleisthenes, the Tyrant and the Democract
Yisrael Bar, the Enigmatic Soviet Spy Who Infiltrated Israel’s Top Security Circles
Tariq ibn Ziyad: The Military Prodigy Who Conquered Spain, and Ended Up a Destitute Beggar
Arms Dealer Basil Zaharoff: The Modern Era’s First ‘Merchant of Death’
History’s Shortest War: The 38-Minute Anglo-Zanzibar War
Before He Committed Genocide, Pol Pot Used to Be Known as ‘A Very Nice Man’
Town vs Gown: The St Scholastica Day Riot, When Locals Lit Into Oxford University Scholars
Siaka Stevens: The Politician Who Held History’s Shortest Stint in Office
Thomas Ley, the Justice Minister Who Murdered Critics and Rivals
The Irish Fright of 1688: When Fears of Rampaging Irishmen Sent England Into Mass Hysteria
Volante Rossa: The Italian Anti-Fascists Who Went on a Revenge Spree After WWII
The English Peasants’ Revolt: The Medieval Uprising That Transformed England
10 Fascinating Facts About the War of Jenkins’ Ear
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
Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Fearsome Abolitionist Muhammad Ali Was Named After
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
The Unintended Consequences of the Professionalization of the Roman Legion
Vlad the Impaler, the Real Life Dracula, Did Far Worse Than Suck People’s Blood
Hugh Thompson Jr. at My Lai: Heroism Amidst a Massacre
The Devastatingly Deadly 1918 Philadelphia Parade That Was Held in the Middle of a Pandemic
Ancient China’s Red Eyebrows Peasant Rebellion Overthrew an Emperor and Ended a Dynasty
The Black Tom Explosion: When Kaiser Wilhelm’s Agents Almost Blew Up the Statue of Liberty
‘Mokusatsu’ and the Translation Error That Led to the Atomic Bombing of Japan
The Helot Revolt: The State Slave Uprising That Rocked Ancient Sparta
Benedict Arnold: From Celebrated Hero to America’s Most Infamous Traitor
The Tragic Death of Albert Peter Dewey, America’s First Fatality in Vietnam
Myths and Realities: Spartan Eugenics
The Sinking of the Lusitania: A WWI Tragedy Shrouded in Controversy
The Gauls’ Sack of Rome, 387 BC: A Humiliation the Romans Never Forgot
Harry Hotspur: The Medieval Knight English Premier League’s Tottenham Hotspur FC is Named After
Vespasian: The Down to Earth Emperor Who Cracked Jokes Until His Last Breath
When Emperor Constantine the Great Was Manipulated Into Executing His Son Crispus
Lincoln’s Looks Were a Campaign Liability, Until He Was Saved by an Edited Photo
Operation Creek: A Daring WWII Raid by Over the Hill and Aged Volunteers
The Great Cheese Riot: Fighting Soldiers With Wheels of Cheese
The Hussite Revolution: An Uprising That Revolutionized Warfare
The Weird Maharajas Who Helped the British Control India
Petr Mikhailovich Borisov, the Soviet Scientist Who Wanted to Melt the Arctic Ice Cap
Operation Downfall: The Planned Allied Invasion of Japan
Cacareco: The Rhinoceros That Won an Election
Soccer’s Surprising Role in Kicking Off the Cuban Missile Crisis
Ferrante I: The King Who Displayed His Mummified Enemies in an Exhibit
Andrey Vlasov: From Stalin’s Favorite General to Russia’s Greatest WWII Turncoat and Traitor
Looty: Queen Victoria’s Looted Dog
Operation Paperclip: The Program That Brought Hundreds of Nazi Scientists to the US
‘Royal Fowl’: For Centuries, All of England’s Swans Have Belonged to the King or Queen
The Khawarij: Al Qaeda’s Medieval Terrorist Ancestors
Myths and Realities: Just How Short Was Napoleon?
The Other Roman Empire: How The Eastern Roman Empire Saved the West
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