Few queens in ancient history have been portrayed as much in modern pop culture as the Queen of the Nile, Cleopatra. Tales of her feminine seduction and breathtaking beauty contribute to the mystique that has lived on for over 2,000 years, with each modern portrayal of her slightly different than the others. While she’s often […]
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Cowboys, gunslingers, Buscaderos, and Desperadoes are all terms that could qualify the most famous outlaws in American history based on their manic escapades. From bank robberies and train hijacks to cattle rustling and daylight shoot-outs leading to cold-blooded murders, the notorious wild west bandits were exceptions whose exploits were known during the early 20th century.
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What the longest-running routes of the African slave trade looked like on the other side of the continent. In American and European schools, the history of slavery is largely taught from the perspective of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, which stole millions of Africans from their homelands in North and Central Africa to the Americas and
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Aleister Crowley, originally christened Edward Alexander Crowley, was one of the twentieth century’s most peculiar, interesting, and enigmatic figures. Crowley, who earned the nickname “the wickedest man in the world,” was admired and denounced by his contemporaries. In his lifetime, Crowley had many things going for him — the good, the bad, and the ugly;
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La Llorona, Spanish for “the Weeping Woman,” is a mythical, vicious ghost of Hispanic-American origin, said to wander coasts and waterfronts mourning her children she drowned. La Llorona’s ghost story is arguably the most widely and enthusiastically discussed, interpreted, and sometimes conflated in all Latin American and Spanish communities in the US. But the overarching
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Names like Hideki Tojo are often suppressed when recounting historical people. Why? All the reasons you need are in some of Tojo’s aliases – Japan’s Razor of Fear. Human history tends to forget the names of those who caused indescribable pain and suffering to others. However, this doesn’t mean we can’t learn from these lives.
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Gengis Khan is one of the most renowned conquerors ever known to man. He was a leadership phenomenon famous for successfully uniting the Mongol tribes into a single independent polity and establishing the legendary Mongol Empire, which became the world’s largest land empire ever ruled by one man. To add to his already astonishing legacy,
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The story of Thorvald Eiriksson is incomplete without talking about the Icelandic Saga. Written in the 13th and 14th centuries, the saga is a collection of histories describing Norsemen’s settlement of Iceland and Greenland in the 10th and 11th centuries. Although many historians have claimed that the sagas are unreliable. Eirik Thorvaldsson, commonly known as
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There are mafia crime bosses, there are gangsters, and then there’s Crazy Joe, a blue-eyed friend who stood barely 5 feet, 6 inches tall yet, after his untimely death in New York City’s Little Italy, left a colossal legacy in his wake. The History of organized crime in America isn’t complete without including Joseph Gallo,
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Alexander III of Macedon, or Alexander the Great as popularly called, is one of the world’s most successful commanders. He is a half-Macedonian who became the most famous emperor of Greece. He inherited the crown at age 20, in 336 B.C. He spent most of his ruling years conducting a lengthy military campaign across Western
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