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Fighting Words!
During the Civil War, Henry Ward Beecher traveled to England in order to solicit...
Spartan Reply
Having subdued (or formed alliances with) all of the other major Greek city-stat...
Dan Quayle & the Potatoe In...
Some time after Dan Quayle's embarrassing spelling bee incident (in which he inc...
Lapse of Memory
"In 1913, Raymond Gram Swing got himself appointed Berlin correspondent of the ...
Offensive Belloc?
To his great embarrassment, Hilaire Belloc was often forced to produce substanda...
Veni, Vidi...
In 1683, John Sobieski's military brilliance drove the invading Turks back from ...
Witchever?
William Mansfield once presided over a case of apparent witchcraft involving an ...
Outside the Box
Though the Egyptian viceroy Mohamed Ali was directed by the sultan at Constantin...
Puppet Master?
Richard Nixon was forced to resign the presidency after Republican spies were ca...
Napoleon: Just Deserts?
After his ill-fated invasion of Russia in 1812, Napoleon, alarmed by unrest at h...
Bitter Harvest
Barbara Bush once accompanied her husband, President George Bush, on a state vis...
Waterloo
One day Montgomery hopped into a London taxi. "Waterloo," he declared. "Station?...
Billion Dollar Question
In order to circumvent laws barring businesses from owning property out of state...
Baldwin's History?
Winston Churchill once pilloried one of prime minister Stanley Baldwin's policie...
Howe Unfortunate
After trouncing George Washington's depleted forces at White
Plains, Fort Washi...
Wilbur Shaw
Wilbur Shaw was leading Ralph Hepburn in the 1937 Indianapolis 500 by three mile...
Up the River
Anaximenes reluctantly accompanied Alexander the Great on his campaign against t...
Zhou Enlai: Long View
Henry Kissinger once asked Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai (noted for his lead...
Jewish Crusader
While lunching at the Algonquin Hotel one afternoon, George S. Kaufman was subje...
Moon Shot?
In 1963, New York Yankees pitcher Gaylord Perry jokingly remarked that "they'll ...
Grand Pun
George Selwyn once heard Robert Walpole remark that the British political system...
You Say.. Tomatoes!?
David Frost once interviewed Baldur von Schirach, the former head of the Hitler ...
Sothern Breeze?
On April 13, 1865, with the Civil War over, orders were given to end the draft. ...
Pyrrhic Victory
A formidable and courageous general, Pyrrus was enlisted by the Greek cities of ...
Rochefort
The socialist journalist Rochefort's tumultuous life was marked by a series of d...
William Randolph Hearst: Ye...
When the American battleship Maine was blown up in Havana harbor in Febru...
Battle Cry?
In August, 1704, news was brought to Louis XIV of the French army's brutal defea...
Wales
In 632 A.D. Caedwalla, King of Gwynedd (north Wales), went to war against King E...
Assinine Report?
When General "Fighting Joe" Hooker was appointed commander in chief of the Union...
Rx
On August 10th, 1897, Felix Hoffman and Arthur Eichengrun invented synthetic asp...
Loony Tesla?
Shortly before his death in 1943, the eccentric but brilliant inventor Nikola Te...
Gregorian Calendar (long)
Because the actual solar year (the time required for the earth to complete an or...
Tour of Iran
During an official tour of Iran one year, French president Charles de Gaulle and...
Poisonous Accusation
When Alexander became seriously ill while marching through Asia Minor, his physi...
Fairweather Friends
"On Napoleon's escape from Elba [and return to France], Fouche, who had been mak...
Appeal to Vanity
"A traffic problem existed in the narrow, twisted streets of Paris even in the p...
Noble Gesture?
One day at the height of the French Revolution, a group of Lafayette's admirers ...
Dumplings
Ferdinand suffered from such severe bouts of insanity that, during his reign, af...
Moscow Roscoe (long)
"Looking around for a suitable way of serving the community, Ross Perot decided ...
When in Rome?
During the July Revolution in 1830, Alexandre Dumas joined a mob in the process ...
Pointed Argument?
One day, Damocles - a sycophantic member of Dionysus the Elder's court in the Gr...
Minor Hiccup
Following his death, Empedocles became the subject of much ridicule. Many detrac...
Scribble! Scribble!
Edward Gibbon once presented the Duke of Gloucester (brother of King George III)...
Civil War?
Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz was once asked what he was reading. ...
Drake Disappears
"Drake's most famous exploit, the 'singeing of the king of Spain's beard [in 158...
Rich Reply
Wary of invading the Persian empire, king Croesus one day consulted the oracle a...
Guillotine
"Ironically, the guillotine, which became the most notable symbol of the excesse...
Revisionist History
In a hard-fought game against Carlisle Indian School, a soon-to-be-famous West P...
Arrival of Cinema
In 1895, Auguste Lumiere and his brother Louis made cinematic history by giving ...
Syria's Condition?
In 1799, Napoleon's troops, traveling through the desert on route to Syria, made...
Louis XXX?
While the fifteen-year-old Marie Antoinette was traveling from Austria to marry ...
Pedestals
"Amid the celebrations and the darker scenes of death and looting," David Remnic...
Date with Destiny?
On April 11, 1917, Soviet leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin called the U.S. consul in...
Thomas Jefferson: Sacred an...
Thomas Jefferson was not responsible for the final version of the most stirring ...
Augustan Omens
On the evening before the critical battle of Actium, Octavian (as the emperor Au...
Lady Godiva
In 1057, King Leofric, exasperated by Godiva's persistent pleas, agreed to reduc...
Blind Determination
During the battle of Copenhagen in 1801, admiral Horatio Nelson's forces were bo...
Tanning History
"The popularity of tanning can be traced to a single moment in 1923. After cruis...
Xerxes
While retreating from Greece on a Phoenician ship one day, Xerxes was caught in ...
Albigensian Crusade
During the Albigensian Crusade in 1209, a French army under the guidance of Pope...
Thermopylae
The Spartan king Leonidas defiantly and gallantly resisted the advance of the hu...
The Just
Under the Athenian system of ostracism, each citizen could vote to have a man ba...
Rich Reply
During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was asked by a certain gentleman for a pas...
Pointed Comment
"On the surrender of [John Burgoyne's] British army to General Gates, at Saratog...
Monty
While visiting his son in Honduras in 1959, Montgomery met with Guatemalan presi...
Stinker
"Maybe if I hadn't been so fastidious I could have changed history," Lina Basque...
Snubbed
Some time after the restoration of Napoleon III, Lady Blessington was forced by ...
Trafalgar
While preparing for the battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson, aboard HMS ...
Horatio's Drive
In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jack...
Dissolute Czar
Though Czar Nicholas II faithfully wrote in his diary every day, the entries usu...
Jefferson Lives
John Adams, ever the patriot, died on July 4th, 1826 - the 50th anniversary of t...
Simply Brilliant
In 214 BC, a powerful Roman force attacked the city of Syracuse, the home of the...
Compromise Bill
Though a slave-owner himself, Thomas Jefferson once introduced a compromise bill...
Dickens' Bookshelf
Before moving into Tavistock House, Charles Dickens installed a secret door to h...
Golf of Emotion (long)
The Golf Channel's Peter Kessler, a noted golf historian, once recounted followi...
Moses, 001?
In 2002, a new International Spy Museum opened in Washington, DC. Among the exhi...
Bad Protocall?
Caninius Revilus had the distinction of serving as consul for a single day. When...
Hanging Tough
During the signing of the first draft of the American Declaration of Independenc...
Glorious Analogy
During the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Lord Halifax was among the first to take...
Civil War Shaft
One day after the fall of Richmond in 1865, Thomas Chester, the Civil War's only...
Countrymen
The Seven Weeks' War between Prussia and Austria in 1866 was largely engineered ...
1440 Minutes of Fame?
Ever heard of David Rice Atchinson? In 1849, he served as the 12th president of ...
Cojones Jones!
"Though of Scottish descent, John Paul Jones took a commission in the colonial n...
Yakov
Though many Red Army soldiers were captured by the Nazis during World War II, Jo...
E Pluribus Unum
The Latin phrase 'E pluribus unum' (one from many), adopted by Benjamin Franklin...
Mexican War
After the Mexican War, General Sherman was enlisted by President Zachary Taylor ...
Old Hickory
While preparing to attack New Orleans, the British admiral Sir Alexander Cochran...
Wrath of God
At age 15, Eleanor of Aquitaine married Louis VII, King of France. Her subsequen...
Dubious Promotion
On September 23, 1779, off Flamborough Head in northeast England, John Paul Jone...
Hellespontoons
In 334 B.C., Alexander the Great's army crossed the Hellespont (the strait betwe...
Slave to Mercy
Following the Union victory in the Civil War, Jefferson Davis was captured by Un...
Lost Maharbals
In 216 BC, Hannibal won one of the finest tactical battles in military history a...
Alcazar
In the summer of 1936, at the height of the Spanish Civil War, Antonio Rivera to...
Low Blow?
In 1956, Elvis Presley made a historic appearance on the "Ed Sullivan Show," rea...
Lacking Perspective?
Such was Uccello's fascination with perspective and foreshortening that he staye...
Vespasienne
Endeavoring to restore the Roman state to solvency, Vespasian imposed taxes on m...
1670 Marriage Act
In 1670, the British Parliament under Charles II passed the following remarkable...
William the Conqueror
William Shakespeare's friend and fellow actor Richard Burbage, while playing the...
67 Shirts?
In 1904, Colonel Francis Younghusband persuaded the British government to grant ...
Birth of Grunge
Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm was among a group of pranksters who once advertised a...
Imperial Conspiracy
"Shi Huangdi died [in 210 BC] while on a journey to seek the elixir of life. Two...
Medes
One night Astyages, king of the Medes, dreamt that his grandson (Cyrus) had usur...
Bottom Line
Napoleon is said to have suffered from a peculiar physical ailment which contrib...
Julius Caesar: Veni, Vidi, ...
In 47 BC, having decisively defeated the king of Pontus, Pharnaces II, at Zela (...
A/CK!
The invention of air conditioning may be traced to the assassination of Presiden...
Local Anesthesia (long)
"February 15, 1921. New York City. The operating room of the Kane Summit Hospita...
God help Us?
Following the parliamentarians' victory over Charles I during the English Civil ...
Ultramarine
Perugino was once commissioned to paint several frescoes (long since lost) in a ...
Private Peter
At the end of the seventeenth century, Russian czar Peter the Great harbored man...
St. Donut?
When William Randolph Hearst purchased St. Donat's Castle in Glamorgan, Wales, h...
Spartacus's Death
In 73 BC, the famed Thracian gladiator Spartacus led a slave revolt in Italy. Af...
Deliberate Lincoln
At noon on January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation was laid before presid...
Cromwell's Portrait
While viewing an exhibition of paintings of English royalty by the renowned port...
Wisdom of Solomon
One day two prostitutes sharing living quarters delivered babies within three da...
Steely Response
Following Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin unceremoniously eliminated his military a...
Perfect Agreement
Charles V spent much of his reign engaged in warfare and diplomacy defending his...
Philip the Fair?
After the Knights Templar were defeated by the Muslims and expelled from the Hol...
Marie Antoinette's Perfume
According to legend, when the French royal family tried to flee France disguised...
Revisionist History
In February 1933, an American politician sitting in an open car in Miami was fir...
Balloon Flight
"On June 4, 1783 at the market square of a French village of Annonay, not far fr...
Renaissance Man?
The Renaissance scholar Nevill Coghill, walking in the grounds of Oxford's Magda...
Royal Exemption
In 1976, Princess Anne was a member of the English equestrian team in the Montre...
Jenkins's Ear
In 1738, Captain Robert Jenkins displayed an ear pickled in brine
before a Parl...
Contrarian
Though Kondraty Ryleyev, like the other Decembrist conspirators, was condemned t...
Caesar
Julius Caesar was dining with friends one evening when the conversation turned t...
Mostest Modesty
General John Hunt Morgan, while reminiscing with Nathan Forrest about their expl...
Madness of King Charles
For his assistance to Cromwell in the English Civil War, Thomas Blood was awarde...
Verdi! Verdi!
While Verdi was cheered by Italian patriots at every performance, their applause...
Wonderful Spectacle
Though America's founding fathers appreciated France's spiritual support of thei...
Rossbach
At the battle of Rossbach in 1757, Frederick the Great's Prussian army vanquishe...
The Mystery of Benjamin Bat...
In 1809, Sir Benjamin Bathurst, Britain's ambassador to the court of the Austro-...
Senecan Logic
Though his influence on the maniacal Nero grew weaker as time passed, Seneca end...
Have Gun Will Travel?
In 1884, when the British garrison at Khartoum, Egypt was under siege, a $15,000...
Louis XIV: High Heeled History
"Petite brides Catherine de Medici and Mary Tudor (aka Bloody Mary) both wore hi...
Conquistador
In 1518, Hernando Cortes asked the Spanish governor to sponsor an expedition to ...
Persian Warning
In 512 BC, as Darius led his armies north of the Black Sea, the Scythians sent t...
Louis Philippe
When Louis XVIII's successor was ousted by the July Revolution, Louis Philippe c...
Nero Fiddled...
"Pretending to be disgusted by the drab old buildings and narrow, winding street...
Franco-Prussian War
Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck tricked the French into the Franco-Prussia...
Ides of March
Early in March of 44 BC, Julius Caesar was warned by an augur (named Spurinna) t...
Peccadillo?
In August 1842, Charles Napier, having annexed the province of Sind (giving the ...
English Reformation
"Henry VIII wanted the Pope to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, so he ...
Naval Gazers?
"When Julius Caesar landed on the shores of Britain with his Roman legions, he t...
Catholic Compromise
Paris took centre stage in the religious wars between Roman Catholics and Huguen...
God & McKinley
In 1898, President William McKinley ordered a fleet of six warships to Manila Ba...
Haircut History
While performing a whirling dance with her husband, Vernon Castle, one day in 19...
Peace For Our Time
On September 30th, 1938, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain returned fro...
Classical Education
In 1801, while fighting the French in Egypt, Sir George Murray and his men found...
Jay Lovestone: American Com...
"In 1929, Jay Lovestone, the head of the American communist party, was summoned ...
Ten Gallons of History
In 1927, National Air Transport handled a historic parcel: the first package eve...
Audition Beater?
Marlon Brando dressed up so nicely for his first audition that none of the produ...
Heretics of Ireland (long)
"Although he later reverted to Catholicism, under Henry VIII and Edward VI, Harr...
Irrational Pythagoras
Pythagoras (whose cult forbade the eating of beans and the poking of fire with a...
Bismarck's Africa
Even at the height of British, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch colonialism...
Jefferson & Burr
Thomas Jefferson very nearly lost the presidential election in 1800 to Aaron Bur...
Loss of China
"[During World War II, Madame Chiang Kai-shek] addressed the American Congress, ...
Fumimaro Konoye: Hemorrhoids
Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoye suffered from a severe case of hemorrhoi...
James II: Entitleist?
In 1457, King James II of Scotland banned a game which he claimed was distractin...
John Kerry: Anesthesia
In February 2004, John Kerry visited Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for sur...
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Sovi...
At the Republican National Convention in 2004, Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered a...
Spoken from the Heart
"'Twas Sir Everard Digby's ill fate to suffer in the Powder plott [the plot to b...
Olmos Famous
Edward James Olmos, noted for his role as the laconic Lieutenant Castillo on tel...
You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet
At one point during the filming of The Jazz Singer, Al Jolson called out ...
Twain Makes a Mark
In order to apply for the post of reporter-at-large with the Territorial Enterpr...
Anne Boleyn: Getting Ahead
On May 19, 1533, Henry VIII, desperate for a male heir, had Anne Boleyn accused ...
Robert the Bruce
In The Pawprints of History, Stanley Coren advanced an interesting argume...
Hatchet Job
When George Washington, at the tender age of six, was given a hatchet, he ventur...
Star-Spangled
After witnessing the British attack on Fort McHenry at Baltimore on September 13...
Theodore Roosevelt & the Pa...
In 1903, the United States took possession of the Panama Canal Zone. Theodore Ro...
Toast to Courage
During the American Revolutionary War, Armand Lauzun accompanied Rochambeau to A...
Leary traveler?
While traveling through southern Italy in 1847, Edward Lear was overtaken by the...
Metrodome Double?
On May 1984, in an unusual game between the Oakland Athletics and the Minnesota ...
Constantine's Vision
In the first decade of the fourth century AD, six men vied for the leadership of...
Passage to India
When Hernando Cortez, the celebrated New World explorer, returned to Spain, he w...
Julius Caesar: Crossing the...
"Caesar's confrontation with the senatorial party came to a head in 49 BC, when ...
Hadrian
As a matter of course Hadrian traveled extensively throughout his realm. On one ...
Viva Napoleon
Louis Napoleon, a nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, was elected President of the Fre...
God's Wounds!
In 1629, when the English Parliament produced a document censuring the policies ...
Back in the Cold Days?
Superstar salaries have not always been fucking. In 1933, after beating the New ...
Revolutionary Thought
Despite their outspoken protests against royal corruption and inefficiency, Jean...
Minuit
On May 4th, 1626, the aptly-named Peter Minuit succeeded Willem Verhulst as the ...
Wireless Marvel (long)
One day in 1910, after chopping his wife Cora's head off and throwing it into th...
Royal Loyalty
In December 1792, with his king (Louis XVI) facing trial by the Revolutionary Co...
Only Men
Though the French defeated the Russians at Borodino in 1812, both sides suffered...
Stonewall Jackson
So impressed was General Ewell by the gallantry of a certain Federal cavalry off...
Fence-Sitter?
Talleyrand's precise role behind the scenes during the July Revolution which bro...
Shajar-al-Durr
When the Egyptian Sultan died during the siege of Cairo, his wife, Shajar-al-Dur...
Phidippides
The battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. surely ranks as one of history's greatest bat...
Whisky Wheelbarrow
"The first mechanical road vehicle, forerunner of the automobile, was
a steam-p...
Not So Great?
As part of her plan for the modernization of Russia, Catherine the Great envisio...
American Dream
Samuel Slater, born near Manchester in 1768, began working in a mill at the age ...
Benjamin Franklin: American...
As he departed the Convention Hall at the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Fr...
Robert the Bruce
The fugitive Robert the Bruce - hiding from the troops of Edward I in a cave, de...
Three Kingdoms
"After his father's execution (1649) Charles attempted to regain the throne by f...
George III: Crown Jewel
"On September 22nd, 1761, their Majesties George III and Queen Charlotte were cr...
Hope
In preparation for his conquest of Asia, Alexander the Great distributed crown e...
Birth of Atheism
"Doubt struck the ancient world like a meteorite, literally. In 467 BC, a meteor...
Johnny on the Spot
In 1868, impeachment proccedings were initiated against President Andrew Johnson...
Napoleon Bonaparte: War Fin...
In order to finance his invasion of Russia, in 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte set up a ...
John Byng
When John Byng was court-martialed and brought before the firing squad (for fail...
Prescott's Conquest
American historian William Hickling Prescott devoted his life to the scholarly s...
nuorraH yaR
The legendary automobile designer Ray Harroun won the first Indianapolis 500 in ...
Austerlitz
Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz (in December, 1805) over the combined forces of...
Cornwallis
In the run-up to the American Revolutionary War, sympathy for the American cause...
Cato
Cato the Censor became convinced that Rome would never be secure while the great...
Eclipse
On May 28, 585 BC, as the Medes and Lydians were advancing into battle, the sun ...
French Revolt?
On July 14, 1789, at the start of the French Revolution, an angry mob led by Geo...
Fading Light
During the American Civil War General Stonewall Jackson, in a brilliant military...
Battle of Wits
One day an Athenian ally, irked by Themistocles' frequent demands for money, ref...
If Only
As a young man, Hitler, intent on becoming an artist, moved to Vienna (from his ...
Trust but Verify
While preparing to cross a river to attack the enemy one day, Oliver Cromwell st...
Flanders Mare
Henry VIII's powerful minister, Thomas Cromwell, endeavoring to strengthen Engla...
Half-Assed Excuse
In 1795, with the death of Louis XVII, Louis XVIII became nominal king but was p...
USA
Alexander Hamilton, the leader of the Federalist party, would have given little ...
Smells Like Victory?
In 1812, in the path of Napoleon's advancing army, the Russians abandoned the ci...
Hulagu & the Caliph
"On January 29, 1258, Hulagu’s forces took up a position on the eastern outskirt...
Mother of Invention
Because he (and his domineering mother, Catherine de Medicis) believed that mone...
Chariots of Fire
In 1982, Colin Welland won an Academy Award for his script for Hugh Hudson's ...
Roman Senate
Julius Caesar's decision to increase the number of seats in the senate caused co...
Vergil's Aeneid
Vergil, generally considered the greatest of the Roman poets, died while complet...
Turbulent Priest
In 1162, Henry II, hoping to bring church and state under his control, appointed...
Cool Reception?
In 1931, Lili de Alvarez's appearance at center court at Wimbledon caused a sign...
Conquistador's Weapon
Francisco Pizarro, a nearly illiterate Spanish conquistador, conquered the grand...
Mad Laughter
Travel writer Eric Newby: "The driver of an electric brougham [car] sat outside,...
Catch-22
The coronation of William of Orange (after the flight of James II in 1689) was i...
Catherine's Last Words
When Catherine of Aragon bore Henry VIII a daughter (Mary, later Mary I) but no ...
Civic Duty
To provide for quick action in times of emergency, Roman Senators could appoint ...
Ticonderoga
In a surprise attack on the morning of May 10, 1775, a small force led by Ethan ...
Sexist Adams
Though President John Adams and Mercy Otis Warren were lifelong friends, Adams c...
Troubadour's Song
When [king] Richard was captured by the Austrians, it was some time before anyon...
Royal Society
But for Charles Babbage's failure to raise adequate funding to build his "analyt...
Apelles
Apelles once called upon the talented but little-known painter Protogenes at his...
Nathan Hale
In September 1776, Nathan Hale volunteered for a secretive espionage mission beh...
Tinker's Damn
A no-nonsense pragmatist, Henry Ford once famously declared that "history is bun...
Robespierre
As an idealistic young man, Maximilien Robespierre was so opposed to the death p...
Hemlock
When Socrates was tried on charges of corrupting the Athenian youth and sentence...
Plump Remark
The British government once offered a substantial reward for a list of the signa...
Battle on the Nile
Having pursued the enemy fleet around the Mediterranean for several weeks, Horat...
Caesar's Fortune
When Julius Caesar sailed from Italy at the end of 49 BC to attack Pompey in nor...
Cromwell's Bauble
Although Oliver Cromwell initially sought a reconciliation with Charles I, he ev...
Talleyrand & Charles X
One day in 1815, Charles X, unaware that his brother had recently fled (on March...
Sedley's Daughter
The playwright and wit Sir Charles Sedley had only one daughter, Catharine, a sm...
7'
While playing at Oklahoma A&M, Bob Kurland (America's first seven foot basketbal...
Crocodile Tears
In 1772 a treaty partitioning Poland was signed by the Austrian Archduchess Mari...
Proper Austrians
During a state visit to Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914, the car in which Francis Fe...
Anglo Angels
According to tradition In 586, while serving as abbott of the monastery of St. A...
Cyprus Mine
"Cyprus was one of the world's important mining centers in ancient times, but fo...
Peter Exhumed
In 1762, after ruling for just six months, Czar Peter III was assassinated by a ...
History in the Making
On July 27, 1830, the famed French historian Jules Michelet was lecturing at the...
Bicycle History
One day in the 1830s, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, a blacksmith from Dumfries, Scotlan...
Coffee History
Coffee, introduced into Europe by Arabic traders, was considered by many Roman C...
Dark Figure
According to legend, in the wee hours on the night after the execution of Charle...
Et Tu, Brute
Among the conspirators who murdered Caesar on the Ides of March was Marcus Juniu...
Hypatia
The Neo-Platonist philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer Hypatia was the las...
Short Innovator
When Bunny Austin started playing tennis, men wore long, heavy white flannel tro...
Hippocrates
Hippocrates was the first physician to reject long-held fuckingstitious and fuck...
Galen
One day Galen was summoned to attend to the wife of a Roman aristocrat whose own...
Hannibal's End
When the Romans defeated King Antiochus III's Syrian forces at Magnesia (in 189 ...
Martyrs
After their show trial for heresy in 1555, Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley (the...
Westward Expansion
One day on his way home from Washington to Kentucky, Henry Clay - inspired by Je...
Austerity Dressing?
"Quite early in the war, Norman Hartnell was summoned to discuss the Queen's cos...
Georges Clemenceau & Americ...
French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau once remarked that America had gone fro...
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