Some may consider Emily Brontë a one hit wonder in the literary world. Besides one book of poems she collaborated with Anne on, Emily is known for the only nove...
In May of 1972, seven burglars broke into the Democratic National Committee’s office in the Watergate building located in Washington, D.C. The burglars wiretapp...
New York City, the largest city in the United States, originally began when the Dutch West India company sent about thirty families to live on “Nutten Island”, ...
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Death penalty laws go way back to the eighteenth century B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon. During the tenth century A.D., h...
There are so many ancient ruins around the world that you can still visit today. Here are 15 more of the most mind blowing historical ruins throughout the entir...
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Arguably one of the most important discoveries in Egyptology is still surprising and perplexing archaeologists to this day, accor...
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Last time on History's Badasses, we covered the man who abolished the slave trade in the British Empire: William Wilberforce. This week, we...
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It was a mystery for the ages, one that drew in the entirety of Britain's police force and the likes of Dorothy Sayers and Sir...
Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3rd, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. Many fans know how much of an inspiration Walt Whitman was Ginsberg, he began studying his work...
Known for creating one of the most iconic fictional figures of all time, Bram Stoker is considered a literary idol to many. Bram Stoker was born in Dublin, Irel...
