If you're an American Horror Story fan, then you've probably heard of Madame LaLaurie. Lalaurie was portrayed by Kathy Bates in the the third season of American...
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MANTEO, NC - Pottery shards that may have belonged to part of a medicine jar from the famous lost colony of Roanoke have been found b...
“I could but esteem this moment of my departure as among the most happy of my life.” - Meriwether Lewis
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Last time, on History's Badasses,...
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ALSACE, FRANCE - Archaeologists seem to have unearthed the remains of a neolithic massacre going back 6,000 years.
A group of researc...
Known for the revolutionary novel, The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger makes our list for one of the most influential writers of all time. After his famous no...
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, exploring was the thing to do. Europe was just now discovering that there were lands beyond their small stretch of...
The first ever bicycle like device dates back to the 1490s. Leonardo da Vinci sketched one similar to what is now known as the bicycle. However, he never built ...
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GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA - Archaeologists have discovered a rare 400-year-old Native American homestead site that belonged to a tribe w...
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They stand in silence facing inward from the ocean, as if they are a line of soldiers, of sentries meant to protect the island from whate...
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James Madison Jr. was the fourth President of the U.S., serving from 1809-1817. Not only that, he wrote the first draft of the consti...