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The Boy Jones, Queen Victoria’s Persistent Intruder
Not long after young Victoria became queen, a young man got into Buckingham Palace, wandered...
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The Boy Jones, After Buckingham
Even though Edward Jones served two prison sentences for his intrusions into Buckingham palace,...
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The Battle of Mons and the Angels That Followed
The Battle of Mons was one of World War I’s earliest battles. In the months after the battle,...
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On Sept. 19, 1356, one of the decisive battles of the Hundred Years War took place in France. It...
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The Mutiny and Massacre of the Batavia
While most of the survivors of the Batavia were scattered on a few tiny islands off the coast of...
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It was the biggest shipping disaster in Cayman Islands history -- 10 ships went down together one...
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Accounts of teleportation, alchemy and even immortality swirl around the legend of Count of...
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Rose Bertin: The First Fashion Designer
The legendary wardrobe of Marie-Antoinette has been criticized, envied and discussed to no end....
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Ambrose Bierce was a soldier, a journalist, an editor, a satirist and a philosopher. He was a...
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China's Foot Binding Tradition
Foot binding was practiced in China for more than 1,000 years -- far longer than can be...
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13 Reasons for the American Revolution
“No taxation without representation” is often thought of as the cause of main beef that led to...
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History is written by the victors. But one big exception to that conventional wisdom is the...
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Embalming and Mummification Rituals of Ancient Egypt
So how did Ancient Egyptians actually embalm their dead? Thanks in large part to Herodotus and...
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In 1898, two male lions killed and ate dozens of people in Tsavo and shut down construction of...
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The Axman of New Orleans, Part 2
The second half of the Axman story involves his famous letter to the New Orleans Times-Picayune...
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The Axman of New Orleans, Part 1
In 1918 and 1919, a rash of attacks had all of New Orleans on edge. While the Axman has turned up...
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He was an art patron. He loved science. He spoke many languages. He was also known for a dark...
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Improbably Effective Holocaust Rescuers
There are many amazing, heroic stories of people who risked everything to protect Jews and other...
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About 200 miles southeast of Lima, Peru, between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, there...
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