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Sometimes history has a way of twisting a story to make villains into heroes or…
Contrary to what Game of Thrones would have us believe, exceptionally-skilled swordsmen have been few…
The image of sailors as being particularly mentally unbalanced has a surprising degree of official…
Death can be messy. Not like blood-splattering, flesh-eating zombies, but rather something much, much worse:…
The image of sailors as being particularly mentally unbalanced has a surprising degree of official…
Almost 200 people have sat on the throne of the Roman Empire. Some were very…
Bruce Lee is a household name and, although he died relatively young, the legacy he left…
His name means Charles the Great — a fitting description for a brilliant military commander,…
The word strange is barely adequate for some of the ancient leaders described here, if…
Hitler, Freud, Stalin, and the Rothschilds all walk into a bar. This isn’t the setup…
Archaeology isn’t just a study of fossils and old rocks, it’s also perhaps the only…
In war, there are winners and losers. Sometimes an army is defeated because they simply…
Everybody has heard of Jack the Ripper. Everybody has heard of the Zodiac. The fact…
It’s a cliche at this point that politicians are not necessarily trustworthy. You can expect…
Historians often bicker about the exact timeline and the most significant period of the Renaissance.…
The word strange is barely adequate for some of the ancient leaders described here, if…
Magic is a performance art that goes back thousands of years. The cups and balls,…
Criminals are pretty good at disappearing, more so than your average person. This is particularly…
Armies have existed for about as long as civilization has. When a group of people…
Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great, didn’t get his nickname for…
Despite being a covert agent employed hundreds of years ago in feudal Japan, the ninja…
If the truth be told, the smartest criminal of all-time likely doesn’t appear on this…
In past TopTenz lists of badass women, we’ve often featured exclusively those that were in…