In the centuries prior to the French Revolution, French authorities used a variety of methods…
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Eccentricity is one of the great British pastimes. History is full of figures who displayed…
When you think of the term “freak show” you might imagine scenes from a bygone…
The Wild West of the United States sets the stage for famous gunslinger films, but…
Alchemy is the ancient science of attempting to transform lead into gold. Alchemists also sought…
Winston Churchill once referred to Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an…
The common belief that idioms such as “saved by the bell” and “working the graveyard…
American history is full of women who have been long forgotten. Some of these women…
They say that truth is stranger than fiction. While storybook detectives like Sherlock Holmes, Hercule…
It’s easy, even comforting, to think of history’s tyrants as one-dimensional bad guys. That they…
History is full of mysterious deaths. Some of them are deemed suicides, but have enough…
Some people choose to become spies out of patriotism; others do so in pursuit of…
You might not always like your home country, but at least it is yours. Citizenship…
Few people have held an entire country hostage as brutally and efficiently as Pablo Escobar,…
Since its inception as a country, America has produced a relentless fighting spirit, resulting in…
Here on TopTenz, we’ve covered the Darwin Awards once before. Of course, one list is…
Separating fact from fiction can be challenging when examining the lives of historical leaders —…
Adolf Hitler is history’s most reviled, and perhaps even its most influential, figure. He was, more…
The rise of social media has spawned an outbreak in inconsistent news reporting. In some…
The possibility of extraterrestrial life fascinates almost everyone, and the world is full of people…
Today, Teddy Roosevelt is one of the least criticized presidents in US history. In fact,…
Billionaires are not just people who make money, they are also kinda rock stars. We…
Bounty hunters will go to any length to catch a criminal, so long as they…
We tend to associate act of marrying a family member with either the poorest of…