Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais was Napoleon’s first wife and the first Empress of the French. During the Reign of Terror, Joséphine’s first husband had been g...
During World War II, Australian Nancy Grace Augusta Wake was a Special Operations Executive for the British and was one of the most decorated servicewomen for t...
"I only did my duty, and what I was told to do was: to do as well as I could." - Simo Häyhä
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Writer, philosopher, and women’s rights advocate, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote many novels and treatises along with a travel narrative, a history of the French Rev...
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ICELAND - archaeologists working at Eyjafjörður fjord in northern Iceland uncovered a massive burial site earlier this month. Now...
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When commercial shampoo began hitting store shelves in the 1930s, it changed the world. That begs the question, then, what did pe...
Usually, on this site, we post some pretty serious things: biographies, theories, archaeological news, and answers to some of history's puzzling questions, like...
Born Maria Beatrice Anna Margherita Isabella d’Este, Mary of Modena was the second wife of James II and VII and was his Queen consort. When she married James, h...
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LAVAU, FRANCE - two years ago, a small village in eastern France became famous when archaeologists first uncovered the 5th century BC t...
It has been 40 years since the artist behind "One Love" passed on. His legacy, however, remains vibrant.
Bob Marley introduced the world at large to reggae mus...
