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Strange History
The V-3 Cannon: The Super Gun With Which Hitler Wanted to Destroy London
The Immovable Ladder that Stayed Put in a Church for Three Centuries
Shady Nineteenth Century Archaeologist Eugene Boban and the Crystal Skulls Hoax
When Santa Beat Up a Priest: The Not So Nice Side of Saint Nick
Assassin Bonnier de La Chappelle Went Before a Firing Squad Believing its Bullets Were Blanks
Filippo Brunelleschi Revolutionized Architecture, and Pulled off the Renaissance’s Greatest Prank
How Hitler’s Rejection from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts Shaped His Worldview
Mary Wolverston, Lady Killigrew: Elizabethan Pirate Queen of Cornwall
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
The Lovable Tramp’s Kinky Side: The Scandals That Got Charlie Chaplin De Facto Deported from the US
WWII Bombers: Petlyakov Pe-2, the Formidable Soviet Bomber Designed in a Gulag
Confederates in Africa: Southern General William Wing Loring in Ethiopia
Operation Bertram: Deceiving the Desert Fox With Dummy Tanks and Illusions
Matthew Hopkins, the Self-Proclaimed ‘Witch Finder General’ Who Got Dozens of Innocents Executed for Witchcraft
‘Canoedling’ Moral Panic – When Worries About Young People in Canoes Kept Moralists Awake at Night
Corporal Wojtek the Bear: World War II’s Furriest Soldier
The Zveno Project: The Soviet Flying Aircraft Carrier
The Guillotine Was Still in Use When Star Wars Was in Theaters
The ‘Dynamite Fiend’: Conman, Confederate Spy, and Mass Murderer Alexander Keith Jr.
Harold Cole: From Jailbird and British Army Sergeant to Notorious WWII Traitor
Rock & Roll’s First ‘Wild Man’ Jerry Lee Lewis Wrecked His Career by Marrying His Thirteen-Year-Old Cousin
Meowing Nuns: The Weird Mass Hysteria that Swept a Medieval Convent
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’
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
Farouk of Egypt: The ‘Pickpocket King’ Who Stole Winston Churchill’s Watch
Bizarre Side of Historic Figures: Pythagoras Was a Cult Leader and Literal Math Murderer
10 Fascinating Facts About the War of Jenkins’ Ear
Felt Hat Day and Straw Hat Riots: When American Cities Erupted Over Headdress
Holy Dong! Fascinus: The Flying Roman Phallic God
The Erfurt Latrine Disaster: When Dozens of Aristocrats Were Drowned in Excrement
Dance Marathons: From Cheerful Events in the Roaring Twenties, to Sad Spectacles in the Great Depression
Trofim Lysenko: Stalin’s Favorite Biologist, and His Quack Pseudoscience That Killed Millions
Colonel Blood: The Audacious Rogue Who Stole the Crown Jewels of England
The War of the Currents: Nikola Tesla’s Revenge on Thomas Edison
Vlad the Impaler, the Real Life Dracula, Did Far Worse Than Suck People’s Blood
Mount Pelee and the Destruction of Saint-Pierre: The Twentieth Century’s Deadliest Volcanic Eruption
Jackie Coogan, the Addams Family’s Uncle Fester, in World War II
The Forty Elephants: The All-Female Gang That Preyed on London’s Elites for Generations
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
Dromomania: The Uncontrollable Travel Phenomenon That Swept Nineteenth Century France
The Man Who Laughed Himself to Death Watching ‘The Goodies’
Ishinosuke Uwano, the Missing Japanese Holdout Who Resurfaced 61 Years After WWII Ended
The Vulture War: When Naturalists Fought Over How Buzzards Find Food
When Emperor Constantine the Great Was Manipulated Into Executing His Son Crispus
WWI Dazzle Camouflage Relied on Confusing the Enemy, Instead of Hiding
Lincoln’s Looks Were a Campaign Liability, Until He Was Saved by an Edited Photo
Unholy Holy Fathers: Alexander VI, the Corrupt Borgia Pope
Operation Creek: A Daring WWII Raid by Over the Hill and Aged Volunteers
Saint Olga of Kiev’s Vicious Vengeance Campaign
The Great Cheese Riot: Fighting Soldiers With Wheels of Cheese
The Weird Maharajas Who Helped the British Control India
Petr Mikhailovich Borisov, the Soviet Scientist Who Wanted to Melt the Arctic Ice Cap
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