Some of the most rare photos are also the ones that stop us in our tracks as we linger on the image. The emotion, the horror, the joy...whatever the feeling the...
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When most children in the world are thinking of a jolly, round old man with a white beard who's going to come clambering down their chimn...
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ASHKELON CEMETERY, ISRAEL - Archaeologists have made an incredible discovery along Israel's coast: a 3,000 year-old Philistine cemetery tha...
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...
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Last time on History's Badasses, we covered martial arts badass, actor, and director Bruce Lee. This time, we're talking about the f...
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The city of Byblos is considered by the UNESCO World Heritage Foundation to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited citi...
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...
Born in 1640, Aphra Behn was one of the first women in England to make a career out of writing. As a playwright, poet, translator, and Restoration era author, s...
"There are literally many thousands of Safaitic inscriptions and petroglyphs in the Jebel Qurma region, which suggests that people intensively used the area." -...
Isabella I of Castile ruled as Queen of Castile and León from December 11, 1474 until her death on November 26, 1504. Though she struggled to claim the throne f...
