Battle of Blair Mountain
In 1921, coal miners fed up with unfair labor practices and exploitation took up arms against their employers. The resulting conflict lasted five days and has been called the biggest armed uprising on...
23 Jul 201427min
Les Filles du Roi
While the building of a population in a new colony seems like a tricky endeavor, France's King Louis XIV launched a scheme to do just that by shipping eligible ladies to New France in the 1600s. Read ...
21 Jul 201426min
The Doctors' Riot of 1788
In the late 1700s, medical colleges needed cadavers for educational dissection, but there were no legal means for obtaining them. This led to some unorthodox dealings in the acquiring of bodies, and b...
16 Jul 201423min
Cosmetics From Ancient Egypt to the Modern World
Makeup has a rich and lengthy history that spans the globe and crosses cultures. From 10,000 B.C.E. to the 20th century, people have been using cosmetics to enhance their looks -- sometimes with unint...
14 Jul 201430min
The Battle of Mons and the Angels That Followed
The Battle of Mons was one of the earliest battles of World War I. In the months after the battle, stories spread that a supernatural presence had covered the British army, preventing it from being de...
9 Jul 201430min
Suleiman the Magnificent and the Siege of Vienna
The Ottoman Empire's Suleiman the Magnificent was a head of state, a poet, a reformer of the military and a goldsmith. His reign had a significant impact on the law, literature and art of the Ottoman ...
7 Jul 201430min
The Great London Smog
London is no stranger to smog, which is why when the Great London Smog descended in December of 1952, nobody quite realized anything unusual was going on. At its largest, it extended 30 kilometers aro...
2 Jul 201420min
Caroline Herschel: Astronomy's Cinderella
Herschel managed to break the barrier of women in scientific fields far earlier than you might suspect, in part because of her association with her brother, and in equal measure due to her steadfast d...
30 Jun 201430min
