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There are few episodes in history that are so misunderstood as the condemnation of Galileo. His tria
According to legends of the Middle Ages, knights used the chastity belt on their wives as an anti-te
If you want to be a French king who is also named Louis, then you have to slap enough Roman numerals
Doctors love to say that eight hours of nightly rest is vital to good health. But did people in the
Pirates are popular these days: they adorn our favorite brands of bargain-basement rum and populate
It's good to be as rich as a Rockefeller. John—the patriarch of the family—rose from a lowly Ohioan
Scientific progress has moved steadily forward across much of the world for centuries, with few exam
This episode is fifth in our Alternate History Week series, where I look at famous books of alternat
This episode is fourth in our Alternate History Week series, where I look at famous books of alterna
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. -Joseph Stalin When consider major his
This episode is third in our Alternate History Week series, where I look at famous books of alternat
This episode is second in our Alternate History Week series, where I look at famous books of alterna
This episode is the first of a five-part series in our Alternate History Week—our version of Shark W
There was an event in history worse than World War I, worse than the Mongol invasions that killed 40
Since the 1950s, many classicists and military historians have believed that an ancient Roman bloodl
Thomas Cahill argues in his best-selling book How the Irish Saved Civilization that Ireland played a
Rome and China were the two poles of the Silk Road. One sent precious porcelain, spices, and silks,
The United States has accepted immigrants throughout its history, but America has its emigrants as w
General Curtis LeMay is perhaps the most misunderstood general of the 20th century, despite the fact
Conspiracy theorists have many "reasons" for why we've never been to the moon: the Van Allen radiati
