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The Beverly Hillbillies might be one of the more recognizable TV families that you know of, but there are quite a few things that maybe y...
Over the course of history people rise and people fall. Generally, there is a cyclical process to those in charge. For some elite, however, success seems to com...
Figures come and figures go and only the very best have a habit of sticking around in the popular memory. Many of our most treasured fictional characters have v...
As one of the most decorated soldiers in WWII, Lieutenant Colonel Matt Louis Urban is the sort of guy they make movies about, but the story almost had a sad end...
We all have our own picture of what paradise might look like. While most of us can only imagine living in the place of our dreams, others have realized all of t...
Of the train heists committed by the Wilkerson boys, known as the Reno Gang or the Jackson Thieves, their first was also America’s first.
Prior to the Reno G...
Dorothea Lynde Dix spent much of her career as an educator and social reformer to working with the mentally ill and creating some of the first mental asylums in...
Think history is just a boring list of names and dates? Think again. There's hundreds of amusing stories that they don't tell you in history class. Some of thos...
Strange figures have a habit of hanging around in history. Whether they’re remembered for their achievements, their creations or just their interesting habits, ...
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Just over 36 years ago, the cult classic film Caddyshack was released to the public and won audiences over nationwide with its brash-b...