Stuff you Missed in History Class
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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Wreck of the Ten Sail
It was the biggest shipping disaster in Cayman Islands history ...
It was the biggest shipping disaster in Cayman Islands history -- 10 ships went down together one night in 1794. Why would so many ships be traveling so closely to one another, and how did they all end up in peril?
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The Count of Saint-Germain
Accounts of teleportation, alchemy and even immortality swirl around the ...
Accounts of teleportation, alchemy and even immortality swirl around the legend of Count of Saint-Germain. Was he a spy? A concealed royal? A skilled con man? Or just a compulsive liar?
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The Pig War
In 1859, the United States and Great Britain nearly went ...
In 1859, the United States and Great Britain nearly went to war over an issue that seems more likely to spark a feud between Hatfields and McCoys: an American settler shot a Canadian pig that was rooting around his garden.
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King Eric XIV of Sweden
A handsome playboy who once courted Queen Elizabeth I, Eric ...
A handsome playboy who once courted Queen Elizabeth I, Eric started his time as king with focus and ambition. But his paranoia and led him to alienate the aristocracy, fall into violent rages and stab a captive noble to death.
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Crucifixion in the Greco-Roman World
While the crucifixion of Jesus is the most most well-known ...
While the crucifixion of Jesus is the most most well-known instance of this type of execution, crucifixion was a practice that was both common and taboo all over the Greco-Roman world for almost 1,000 years.
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Rose Bertin: The First Fashion Designer
The legendary wardrobe of Marie-Antoinette has been criticized, envied and ...
The legendary wardrobe of Marie-Antoinette has been criticized, envied and discussed to no end. But where did all those glorious clothes come from? In large part, they were the work of Rose Bertin, a milliner who found herself the stylist to the queen.
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Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce was a soldier, a journalist, an editor, a ...
Ambrose Bierce was a soldier, a journalist, an editor, a satirist and a philosopher. He was a complicated man with an unwavering moral code and a life of experiences both fantastic and horrific, which informed his writing.
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Elizabeth Blackwell, America’s First Female M.D.
It's not a story of a person with a childhood ...
It's not a story of a person with a childhood dream of pursuing a career that wasn’t available to them. Dr. Blackwell had no interest in medicine as a child. But she paved the way for women who came after her, and changed the face of medicine in the U.S.
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China's Foot Binding Tradition
Foot binding was practiced in China for more than 1,000 ...
Foot binding was practiced in China for more than 1,000 years -- far longer than can be attributed to a mere cultural or fashion fad. Why did such an extreme type of body modification become such an ingrained part of the culture for so long?
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13 Reasons for the American Revolution
“No taxation without representation” is often thought of as the ...
“No taxation without representation” is often thought of as the cause of main beef that led to the American Revolution, but it was only one of many moving parts in the bigger picture.
