The only thing worse than a bank heist around $1-billion (USD) is when the person in charge, not of the bank but of the country, commits that theft. Sad, but tr...
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Nowadays we take the ability to take a photo for granted, considering there are cameras everywhere we look. But there was a time when taking a...
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Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt lived a troubled life growing up in Tilsit, Prussia. By the age of 14, he already had been sentenced to 14 days in...
Byron as depicted in a BBC Documentary about Byron and the Shelleys, Frankenstein and the Vampyre .Last time on History's Nutcases, we met the peculiar Sir Geo...
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Back in 1923, three men attempted to rob a Southern Pacific train that was traveling through southern Oregon. The mail car was supposed to have o...
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Every summer in the middle of the hot and dry Nevada desert, over 65,000 people gathe...
Leaders throughout history always end up making the headlines. Whether we remember our great rulers for good or bad reasons, they nonetheless make a name for th...
History is made up of the bad and the good. While we might choose to focus on the best stories out there, there are an equal number of unsettling cases, showcas...
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Located in the Great Himalayas lying on the border of Nepal and Tibet sits quite literally the top of the world. I'm of course referri...
" the strangest old bugger you ever met." - Harold Acton.
The Sitwell Family, Edith (Left), Sir George (Middle), and Lady Edith (Right) Last week on History's...
