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...
A medicinal jar and bowl were also found in the latrine. While we don't normally think of someone's bathroom habits as valuable insight into their life, archae...
The June Rebellion, also known as the Paris Uprising of 1832, took place between June 5-6, 1832. Anti-monarchist republicans in Paris began the uprising attempt...
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AKTAU, KAZAKHSTAN - In 2010, a man named F. Akhmadulin was wandering along the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea with a metal detector...
