How Tim Allen Went From Cocaine-Trafficking Criminal To ‘Home Improvement’ Star
After being caught with more than half a kilo of cocaine, Tim Allen faced life imprisonment in 1978. So he decided to make a deal...
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Meet Charity Adams Earley, The Highest-Ranking African American Female Officer Of World War II
“You don’t know you’re making history when it’s happening,” said Charity Adams Earley, the trailblazing Army battalion commander. “I just wanted to do my job.”...
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Meet The Skoptsy, The Russian Religious Zealots Who Castrated Themselves To Be Closer To God
Like many Christian sects, Tsarist Russia’s Skoptsy believed sex was a sin. Unlike most sects, they also believed that the only way to get to...
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How Panoramic Maps Drawn By Artists In Hot Air Balloons Changed 19th-Century America
Before the rise of photography in America, artists drew stunning “balloon maps” of their cities, giving ordinary citizens a bird’s-eye view of their communities that...
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Dismembered Body Found In Idaho Cave Turns Out To Be Escaped Outlaw From 1916
When the headless body was found, experts estimated he died within the last decade. They were off by about half a century. DNA Doe ProjectNo...
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The Rendlesham Forest Incident: Elaborate UFO Hoax Or Government Cover-Up?
“It illuminated the entire forest with a white light. The object itself had pulsing red light on top and a bank of blue lights underneath....
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How Hannah Beswick’s Fear Of Live Burial Turned Her Into The Manchester Mummy
After her brother was nearly buried alive, 18th-century Englishwoman Hannah Beswick feared a similar fate — so her doctor mummified her and displayed her blackened...
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How The Tirpitz Went From Nazi Flagship To Naval Calamity
The German battleship Tirpitz was the largest ever built by a European power but proved too costly to risk in an actual battle. The British...
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Ancient Mayan Palace Containing Human Remains Uncovered In Mexico’s Yucatán Jungle
It’s 180 feet long, more than 1,000 years old, and might just be one of the most striking finds in all of Mayan archaeology. Mexico’s...
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The Mystery Of The Grauballe Man, The Iron Age Body Preserved In A Peat Bog For 2,300 Years
When the Grauballe Man was discovered accidentally, his corpse was so well-preserved that it was initially believed he’d been dead for only 65 years —...
