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Joe Arridy: The Mentally Disabled Man Executed For A Grisly Murder He Didn’t Commit

Blissfully unable to even understand the concept of dying, Joe Arridy was described by the warden as "the happiest man who ever lived on ...

Little-Known Holocaust History: Fleeing Germany, Then Living In A British Castle

On November 15, 1938, shortly after Kristallnacht, a delegation of prominent British Jewish leaders had met with Prime Minister Sir Nevil...

The Moves Of Gene Kelly

When his mother first enrolled him and his brother in dance classes when Gene was still a boy, he had to endure taunts from his classmate...

The Assassinations, Bombings, And Bizarre Fame Of Carlos The Jackal

Born Ilich Ramírez Sánchez in Venezuela, Carlos the Jackal found worldwide infamy in the 1970s as a Marxist revolutionary and terrorist w...

When “Mona Lisa” was stolen in 1911 and the police questioned Picasso

Mona Lisa or La Gioconda, is arguably “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied w...

The Traditional German Sword Fighting Art Called Mensur

Academic fencing (German akademisches Fechten) or Mensur is the traditional kind of fencing practised by some student corporations (Stude...

Emily Dickinson’s Coconut Cake, George Orwell’s Christmas Pudding, Alice B. Toklas’ Hashish Fudge

Of all the desserts to attain cultural relevance over the past century, can any hope to touch Alice B. Toklas' famous hashish fudge? Call...

The Strange Costumes of the Plague Doctors Who Treated 17th Century Victims of the Bubonic Plague

In the 17th and 18th centuries, what we know of as The Age of Enlightenment or early modernity, Europeans traversed the globe and returne...

Meet Lonnie Johnson, The NASA Engineer And Inventor Of The Super Soaker

t’s easy to assume that the creators of the vast majority of children’s toys are likely boasting strong backgrounds in marketing, adverti...

The Mind-Boggling History Of Sex Toys, From Ancient Butt Plugs To Steam-Powered Vibrators

With the oldest-known dildo clocking in at 28,000 years, sex toys are older than civilization, religion, and marriage combined. The oldes...

How You Could Buy Perfume In 1925

No, not a Chocolate Orange, this was manufactured in 1925 for Les Parfums de Marcy “L’Orange Variee” perfume. The scent comes packaged in...

The Victorian Photographic Society That Tried To Preserve ‘Old London’

In capturing images of doomed buildings, they documented the city they thought they were losing. In 1875, Alfred Marks learned he was abo...

A Day In The Life Of A Medieval Executioner In Their 16th-Century Heyday

The daily life of a medieval executioner was not easy. They did more than simply chop off heads and break prisoners on the wheel. Trying ...

The Beautiful Lifelong Bromance Between Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve

The two longtime pals met in 1973 as Juilliard students and were best friends up until Reeve's death in 2004. In his autobiography 'Still...

Hear Keith Richards sing Rolling Stones’ ‘Wild Horses’ & ‘Gimme Shelter’ in rare demos

The Rolling Stones have built a reputation as one of the most dynamic live bands of all time. Their energy belies their years and their h...

The Life Of Queen Liliuokalani, Hawaii’s Last Monarch

When Queen Liliuokalani ascended to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1891, she became the first female ruler of the Hawaiian monarc...

When Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin by accident

Fleming was born on August 6, 1881 at his parents’ farm located near the small town of Darvel, in Scotland, UK. His parents, Hugh Fleming...

Inside The Bizarre, 11-Day Saga Of The Disappearance Of Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is one of history’s foremost crime novelists. But perhaps the author’s most intriguing mystery might just be the case of ...

Inside Matelotage, The Same-Sex Partnerships Between Colonial-Era Pirates

During the Golden Age of Piracy, some buccaneers engaged in matelotage, a form of civil union. Sometimes these arrangements were purely f...

"And Because I Love This Life, I Know I Shall Love Death As Well": Tagore

One of those great masters of literature Tagore's work left no human emotion untouched. The poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher and mus...

Five Fascinating Facts about Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1. He was the original ‘airy-fairy’ poet. The phrase ‘airy-fairy’ – now used as a derogatory term for something light and insubstantial –...

Herman Melville; Not Just The Writer Of Whale Worriers

Born in New York City to a wealthy and socially connected family, Herman Melville (1819-1891) chose a life as exciting as that of his Mob...

The Brave Story Of Irena Iłłakowicz

Irena Iłłakowicz was a Polish intelligence agent during World War II. Her parents were living in Berlin when she was born. Poland was sti...

Thunderstorms, Grief, A New Singer, The Making of Back In Black

It was in March 1980 that Brian Johnson got the phone call that would change his life. A new decade had just begun, but Johnson had littl...

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