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The Keely Engine Hoax: Proof that Gibberish Sells if It Sounds Science-y
Unholy Holy Fathers: Paul II, a Pope Who Passed Away While Getting it On
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
Laurentius Hornaeus and the Torsaker Witch Trials: The Pastor Who Got Dozens of Innocents Executed
The 1974 White House Helicopter Incident: When a Disturbed Army Private Landed a Stolen Huey on the White House Lawn
The Praetorian Throne Auction: When the Praetorian Guard Sold Rome’s Throne to the Highest Bidder
The Shrigley Abduction: When New Zealand’s Founder Kidnapped and Coerced a 15 y.o. Heiress Into Marriage
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it In Their Pants: George H. W. Bush’s Affairs
The Tycoon and the Teenager: When Actress Jane Greer Rejected His Advances, Howard Hughes Bought a Studio to Wreck Her Career
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
Iva Toguri: The American Woman Stranded in WWII Japan Who Became ‘Tokyo Rose’
Wealthy Heiress Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army: From Kidnapped Rich Girl to Radical Revolutionary
Himmler’s Family After WWII: The Alternate Moral Universe of a ‘Nazi Princess’
Ten Cent Beer Night Riot: The Worst Promotion in American Sports History
‘England’s Worst Husband’: The Marriage of Andrew Robinson Stoney and Mary Bowes, King Charles III’s Ancestress
Aldrich Ames: The KGB’s Most Damaging Mole Inside the CIA
The 1855 Toronto Clown Riot, Sparked by Clowns Beating Up Firefighters in a Brothel Brawl
Michael Fagan: The Disturbed Man Who Broke Into Queen Elizabeth II’s Bedroom
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
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
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
Louis Renault’s Journey From Revered WWI Hero to Reviled WWII Collaborator
The Lovable Tramp’s Kinky Side: The Scandals That Got Charlie Chaplin De Facto Deported from the US
Unholy Holy Fathers: Paul III Was One of History’s Most Corrupt, Murderous, and Promiscuous Popes
Matthew Hopkins, the Self-Proclaimed ‘Witch Finder General’ Who Got Dozens of Innocents Executed for Witchcraft
Rock & Roll’s First ‘Wild Man’ Jerry Lee Lewis Wrecked His Career by Marrying His Thirteen-Year-Old Cousin
Yisrael Bar, the Enigmatic Soviet Spy Who Infiltrated Israel’s Top Security Circles
Arms Dealer Basil Zaharoff: The Modern Era’s First ‘Merchant of Death’
Before He Committed Genocide, Pol Pot Used to Be Known as ‘A Very Nice Man’
Thomas Ley, the Justice Minister Who Murdered Critics and Rivals
Farouk of Egypt: The ‘Pickpocket King’ Who Stole Winston Churchill’s Watch
Like His Cat That Was Both Dead and Alive, Erwin Schrodinger Was Both a Genius and a Monster
‘I Have Gazed Upon the Face of Agamemnon’: Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in Greece
‘Don’t Worry About It’: Kermit Tyler, the Officer Who Ignored Radar Warning of Japanese Planes Approaching Pearl Harbor
Hugh Thompson Jr. at My Lai: Heroism Amidst a Massacre
Heinrich Schliemann: The Archaeologist Who Discovered – and Destroyed – Homer’s Troy
Benedict Arnold: From Celebrated Hero to America’s Most Infamous Traitor
The Sinking of the Lusitania: A WWI Tragedy Shrouded in Controversy
When Emperor Constantine the Great Was Manipulated Into Executing His Son Crispus
Josephus: The Great Jewish Revolt Leader Who Switched Sides and Joined the Romans
The Weird Maharajas Who Helped the British Control India
Operation Paperclip: The Program That Brought Hundreds of Nazi Scientists to the US
‘The Saipan Stare’ Weary Marine Photo, and its Unfortunate Controversy
When Exxon-Mobil’s Predecessor Bragged About Melting Glaciers
The WWII Intelligence Screwup That Almost Placed New Zealand Under Martial Law
A Tragic Love That Scandalized a Country and Ended in Execution: Camila O’Gorman and Father Ladislao Guiterrez
Bizarre Rulers: Bokassa I, the Emperor Who Ate His Subjects
Joanna the Mad: The Queen Who Dug Up Her Buried Husband’s Corpse and Slept With it For Years
The West Virginia Town That Sought Soviet Foreign Aid to Build a Bridge
Weird Deaths: Actor Albert Dekker’s Extraordinarily Bizarre Demise
Eerie Accounts of Queen Catherine Howard’s Screaming Ghost at Hampton Court Palace
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it In Their Pants: Warren G. Harding Got it On in White House Closets
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it In Their Pants: Nelson A. Rockefeller Passed Away Getting it On With a Mistress
When Frank Sinatra Was Arrested for Seduction
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