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20 Stories That Make History A Lot More Interesting

20 Stories That Make History A Lot More Interesting

The best stories from history that didn't make it into the textbooks.

By Neill Lynskey

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34 Bombed-Out Photos Inside the WW2 Battle of Britain

34 Bombed-Out Photos Inside the WW2 Battle of Britain

Keep calm and carry on.

By Neill Lynskey

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14 Little-Known Facts About The Attack On Pearl Harbor

14 Little-Known Facts About The Attack On Pearl Harbor

There's more to Pearl Harbor than just what the textbooks tell us.

By Cameron Fetter

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The 17 Dumbest Moral Panics In History

The 17 Dumbest Moral Panics In History

From killer clowns to injecting mayonnaise.

By Cameron Fetter

Featured 6 months ago in Funny

Inside Humanity’s First Speculative Bubble As It Burst

Inside Humanity’s First Speculative Bubble As It Burst

Before the dot-com bubble or the housing crisis, there were flowers.

By Cameron Fetter

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The 15 Weirdest Saints

The 15 Weirdest Saints

Here are some maniacs chosen by God.

By Neill Lynskey

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21 U.S. Cold War Fighter Pilots Harassing Soviet Bombers

21 U.S. Cold War Fighter Pilots Harassing Soviet Bombers

Thousands of intercepts took place over the course of the war.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 6 months ago in Funny

21 Pics of Boomers Doing Non-Boomer Stuff

21 Pics of Boomers Doing Non-Boomer Stuff

Weren't they the same generation that came up with Woodstock, Live Aid, and the all-loving hippie movement?

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 6 months ago in Funny

20 Old Timey Photos Showing the World Of Classic Carnies

20 Old Timey Photos Showing the World Of Classic Carnies

Check out the people who roughed it for the sake of showbiz.

By Neill Lynskey

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14 Little-Known Facts About The Supreme Court

14 Little-Known Facts About The Supreme Court

Learn the weird secrets of America's council of elders.

By Neill Lynskey

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18 Pics of Japan's Last Samurai

18 Pics of Japan's Last Samurai

Much of Japan’s history was ruled over by a warrior class of skilled fighters.

By Cameron Fetter

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20 Pics About Germany’s Scariest WWII Invention

20 Pics About Germany’s Scariest WWII Invention

The flying bomb effectively flew itself to its target, thus becoming the world's first cruise missile.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 6 months ago in Wow

20 Photos of Generation X Doing Its 90s Thing

20 Photos of Generation X Doing Its 90s Thing

It's tough to follow up the baby boomers, but Gen X certainly did its best.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

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20 Pics of Yosemite National Park In the '70s

20 Pics of Yosemite National Park In the '70s

Nothing holds a torch to the grandiose splendor of Yosemite.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

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26 Historical Photos That Show the Terror of Urban Warfare

26 Historical Photos That Show the Terror of Urban Warfare

See soldiers experience war in an entirely different terrain.

By Neill Lynskey

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20 Hardy-Har-Har Cold War Photos

20 Hardy-Har-Har Cold War Photos

How serious was the Cold War, really?

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 6 months ago in Funny

15 Little-Known Facts About The Vietnam War

15 Little-Known Facts About The Vietnam War

Uncover some facts of the war that were buried deep in the jungle.

By Neill Lynskey

Featured 6 months ago

20 Photos of What It Looked Like to Be in a Garage Band During the 1960s & 1970s

20 Photos of What It Looked Like to Be in a Garage Band During the 1960s & 1970s

Are you really young and cool if you've never tried to make it big with your friends in a makeshift punk band?

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 6 months ago in Ftw

20 Photos Inside A-Bomb Los Alamos

20 Photos Inside A-Bomb Los Alamos

First headed by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Los Alamos National Laboratory began work on creating the first atomic bomb in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project

By Daniel Bonfiglio

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16 Photos From Inside Germany’s Sabotage Operation On American Soil During World War I

16 Photos From Inside Germany’s Sabotage Operation On American Soil During World War I

See the aftermath of the German sabotage that was shrouded in secrecy.

By Neill Lynskey

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20 Photos of When the U.S. Was a Much, Much Cheaper Place

20 Photos of When the U.S. Was a Much, Much Cheaper Place

Butter me and call me a biscuit, those are some outrageous prices!

By Daniel Bonfiglio

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20 Road Trip Photos That Take You Across Across The U.S. In The 1950s

20 Road Trip Photos That Take You Across Across The U.S. In The 1950s

No other nation provides such a reliable, yet dynamic experience for automobile travel.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 6 months ago in Ftw

22 Photos Inside 1960s Vietnam Protests

22 Photos Inside 1960s Vietnam Protests

See what it was like to march against an unjust war.

By Neill Lynskey

Featured 7 months ago

20 Historical Events That Can’t Be Found in Textbooks

20 Historical Events That Can’t Be Found in Textbooks

Some stories are too weird for history class.

By Neill Lynskey

Featured 7 months ago

21 Photos Inside the Battle of The Chosin Reservoir During the Korean War

21 Photos Inside the Battle of The Chosin Reservoir During the Korean War

Take in the frozen landscape and the battle fought in it by the Chosin Few.

By Neill Lynskey

Featured 7 months ago

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When a Would-Be Gunman Was Disarmed and Embraced by Former College Wide Receiver Turned Coach

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