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American History
The Pilgrims Landed on Plymouth Rock Because They Were Running Out of Beer
The WWII American Ace Who Deliberately Shot Down an American Airplane – and Got a Medal For It
Plot Twists: The Anticommunist Koch Dynasty’s Founder Worked for Stalin – and Hitler
President John Quincy Adams Thought Earth Was Hollow, and Backed an Expedition to Trade With the Mole People
‘The River of Blood’: A Mysterious US Civil War Battle Historians Can’t Corroborate
Young Warriors: Civil War Drummer Boy Frank Pettis
Myths and Realities: Did Betsy Ross Make the First Stars and Stripes Flag?
The Math Mistake That Made Spinach a Super Food
Teddy Roosevelt’s Journey From Sickly Child to Tough Hombre Who Beat Up Barroom Bullies
Thomas Jefferson’s George Costanza Moment: Shipping a Rotting Moose to France to Win an Argument
Black Sam Bellamy: The Golden Age of Piracy’s Richest Pirate
The Student Sit-Ins That Desegregated Nashville’s Lunch Counters
After the Fame – George Murphy, From Tinseltown to the US Senate
Bill Mauldin: The WWII Cartoonist Who Enraged General George S. Patton
World War II Bombers: America’s Versatile B-24 ‘Liberator’
Little Boys Wore Dresses for Most of History – When Did We Start Clothing Them in Pants and Shorts?
The West Virginia Town That Sought Soviet Foreign Aid to Build a Bridge
When America’s Most Useless Vice President Fell for a Mean Political Prank
Weird Deaths: Actor Albert Dekker’s Extraordinarily Bizarre Demise
America’s First Chief Justice Was Almost Killed When New Yorkers Rioted Over Grave-Robbing Doctors
Benjamin Grierson, an Outstanding US Civil War Cavalry Commander, Feared and Hated Horses
Thomas Jefferson Went From Dog Lover to Wanting to Exterminate All Dogs
Wild West Outlaws: John Wesley Hardin, the Old West’s Deadliest Gunslinger
Beefs: Rick James vs Prince, and the Time the Super Freak Wanted to Beat Up the Purple One
Moral Panics: The 1919 Red Scare and the Government Abuses That Birthed the American Civil Liberties Union
‘Old Hickory’ Andrew Jackson: The US President Who Almost Beat His Would-Be Assassin to Death
Awkward Misunderstandings: George S. Patton and the Honored Latrine
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
Revolutionary War Heroine Sybil Ludington, The Female Paul Revere
CONPLAN 8888: The Pentagon’s Contingency Plan for How to Handle a Zombie Apocalypse
Proof of the Bible’s Assertion That Giants Had Inhabited the Earth? The Controversial Cardiff Giant
Pink Became a Feminine Color Relatively Recently
Wild West Outlaw Frank Stilwell: The Bandit Who Took On Lawman Wyatt Earp and His Brothers
When Frank Sinatra Was Arrested for Seduction
Emperor Heliogabalus’ Practical Jokes Ranged From Tame to Terrifying
Operation Tidal Wave: The ‘Black Sunday’ of WWII American Bombers
Cases That Shocked America: The Skidmore Bully’s Shocking End
Cases That Shocked America: How the Tiny Town of Skidmore Dealt With its Resident Bully
The Astor Place Riot: New Yorkers Almost Burned Down Manhattan Brawling Over Who Was the Best Shakespearean Actor
PROJECT RETRO – America’s Cold War Plan to Stop the Earth’s Spin to Counter Soviet ICBMs
The Chauvinist Prank That Backfired and Led to the Election of America’s First Woman Mayor
Wild West Outlaw Sam Bass and His ‘Black Hills Bandits’ Pulled Off the Biggest Train Robbery in the Union Pacific Railroad’s History
When America Wanted to Nuke the Moon
Bad Fads – The 1939 Goldfish Swallowing Craze That Swept American Colleges
George Washington’s Mother, Mary Ball Washington, Kept Making Things Awkward for Her Son
The Tomb of the Unkowns: Final Resting Place of America’s Most Highly Decorated Serviceman
Fat Men’s Clubs – When Obesity Was Celebrated, and Thin Was Not In
Shipwreck Kelly, the Eccentric Who Kicked off a Flagpole Sitting Fad
Young Warriors – Alexander H. Johnson, the Drummer Boy of the Civil War’s 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
General John Sedgwick Might Have Uttered the Most Unfortunate Last Words of the US Civil War
Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee, Founder of the US Army Nurse Corps
The Johnstown Flood – Thousands Perished When A Dam Collapsed After Gilded Age Tycoons Modified it for their Private Resort
Politicians Who Couldn’t Keep it In Their Pants: Gerald Ford’s Affair With Communist Spy Ellen Rometsch
What Made the “Wild West” So Wild?
Frenchman Pierre Charles L’Enfant Designed America’s Capital City – And Was Never Paid for His Work
Spooky Accounts of George Washington’s Ghost Haunting Mount Vernon
Benjamin Franklin Was a Total Babe Magnet Well Into His Old Age
Disco Demolition Night – When Disco Haters Rioted and Disco Died
When America Almost Became a Nation of Hippopotamus Ranchers
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