History

Christopher Columbus is famous as the man who discovered the New World, better known today as North America. While it’s been established that some of the things you were taught in elementary school about the man were exaggerated a bit, there remain numerous details about the man and his life that you probably never realized were altered, skewed, or altogether fabricated. We suppose the best lesson

Check out the three men who didn’t need to pick up a gun to prove they were a part of the greatest generation.

You don’t have to watch a poorly acted film like “War of the Worlds” to see an invasion elegantly foiled. Just check out some of these historical attacks that went south…

During World War II, Germany’s leader Adolf Hitler and his allies, the so called ‘Axis’ powers, were desperate to control Europe and Asia and spread the

We're really not supposed to like con artists because, you know, they're criminals, but sometimes their stories are so absurd and their cons so effective that

Nobody enjoys war, what with the killing and all. But despite how horrible the experience is, the study of wars throughout history is fascinating. Some wars

Josef Mengele was a Nazi scientist involved in their famous genetics program that had the task of creating a master race of Aryan people. The job for Mengele,

It’s one of the better documented parts of European history, yet much of what we know about the Middle Ages isn’t true at all.

When do you think people wore the most outlandish fashions? The 1960s? 70s? 80s? Not even close. Throughout history people have been sacrificing their bodies at

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is an infamous character, the lecherous Russian mystic whose life sparked controversy and tragedy. He was a man of contradictions,