"Remember, remember," theatrically inclined teenagers will tell you, "the fifth of November." Over the last forty years, Guy Fawkes and his grinning visage have occupied an ever-growing corner of the societal hive mind. But here's the true meaning behind the mask.
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The royal life isn't for everybody, with its constant demands and unceasing visibility. Some people don't want that. That seems to have been the case with Princess Feodora, who dodged the royal throne by being born to the wrong dad. Here's the truth about Queen Victoria's sister Princess Feodora.
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The ancient Egyptians were deadly serious about their board games, especially when it came to senet. This board game wasn’t about having fun. It was about death and the afterlife.
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Genghis Khan was the first Khal Drogo and the fifth horseman of the apocalypse. The seemingly indomitable Mongol conqueror cemented his legacy while raining searing, equine death on the Khwarazm empire in 1219. But even great warriors meet their own end. Here's the truth about Genghis Khan's death.
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The last song Janis Joplin ever recorded was about a car. Her voice was the engine powering the a capella masterpiece, "Mercedes Benz." Of course, according to the lyrics, her friends all drove Porsches, and according to reality, so did she. But whatever happened to Janis Joplin's famous Porsche?
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Jeffrey Dahmer said of his first murder victim, "The guy wanted to leave and I didn't want him to leave." But here's how Dahmer himself died.
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Margaret Tudor was the daughter of King Henry VII and older sister of King Henry VIII. She was promised in marriage to James IV of Scotland, part of the Treaty of Perpetual Peace between England and Scotland in 1502. But there's more to her story.
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Let's rip this Band-Aid off up front: Alexander the Great's horse was named Bucephalus, and no, his name didn't mean anything that you're imagining.
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Late fees, man -- the clawing, creeping, unfortunate fact of the video rental age. But now that the great beast Blockbuster has been bound in the ancient tongue and imprisoned in a strip mall in Bend, Oregon, can we finally rest easy about our late fees?
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The year is 1947. The Allies have slogged through years of bloody warfare, but in the end emerge triumphant over the powers of the Axis. The boys are home. The world is at peace. Nothin' but good times ahead. Right? Not for Elizabeth Short, also known as "The Black Dahlia."
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If tales by his contemporaries are to be believed, Grigori Rasputin was a nigh-unkillable villain with lust in his loins, lunacy in his brain, and evil where his heart should have been. Here's the disturbing truth of his death.
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Turns out that the "Illuminati eye" has nothing to do with the Illuminati at all. What we think of as an Illuminati eye tattoo is actually something else.
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When he wasn't churning out influential hits like "Great Balls of Fire," Jerry Lee Lewis' life was one full of scandal, tragedy, violence, and addiction.
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Henry VIII was a busy guy. He had six wives -- but how many other mistresses on the road to marital misery?
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To the victor goes the spoils, as they say, and Genghis Khan was nothing if not victorious. But how many children did he really have?
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As reported by CNN, on February 6th, 2020, Jhon Jairo Velásquez died at Bogotá, Colombia's National Institute of Cancer. The 54-year old Colombian native had been receiving treatment there for stomach cancer since late December of 2019.
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Al Capone moved to Chicago in 1919 made his mark as a bigtime bootlegger, per History. He found himself going from house to house and state to state.
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Queen Victoria had nine children. Every single one of her progeny managed to make it to adulthood. It's what happened after that wasn't always great news.
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Warren Earp is probably best remembered as "Warren who?" Compared to other celebrated Wild West gunfighters like his older brother Wyatt Earp, Warren sounds like a minor historical footnote. But he had an exciting life ... and death. Here's the truth about Wyatt Earp's brother, Warren Earp.
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In many ways, Henry VIII was a messed up guy who did messed up things. But was he always like that? Did he jump out of the womb as a spring-loaded ball of supervillainy, or did something happen to make him the oddball tyrant we all know and ... know?
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Most everybody knows Wyatt Earp. If you're old enough, or if you're a fan of TV reruns from the 1950s, you remember him as brave, courageous, and bold. Just as interesting, and maybe more so, is the story of Wyatt's older brother, Virgil.
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Water is literally the elixir of life. Every living thing known to man needs water to continue living. But the amount each creature needs on a regular basis can vary dramatically. But what about the only one you're really worried about: humans? How long can you live without water?
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If you own a dog you're probably putting in the work trying to figure out which breed of pup is the most easily manipulatable, so as to train your new hellhound to carry out your orders. Or, at the very least, you'd like one that house trains easily. This is the most obedient dog breed in the world.
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As the (super inaccurate) William Wallace of 1995's Braveheart put it, "They may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom." It's a battle cry for the ages, only slightly hamstrung by the fact that, in real life, they did take his freedom, and, a few weeks later, his life. It was rough.
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We have it on good authority that Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her father forty whacks. According to our sources, when she saw what she had done, she hacked up her mom pretty good as well. But what about her sister?
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Why is a blood affliction associated with the British monarchy? If anything was going to be called "the royal disease," shouldn't it have been crippling shopoholism or narcissistic personality disorder? Turns out, we can blame Queen Victoria.
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Some people don't eat in protest, and others just don't have food to eat. But just how long can a body endure without food?
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