Great Moments in History

The Moon Landing. July 20, 1969*. The first (small...

Jun 25th

Hey! The Iraq War was over like 6 years ago, right? ...

Jun 25th

Ernest Rutherford (not a science martyr*) came up with the...

Jun 25th

Dancing mania/St. John’s Dance/Drugs took Aachen,...

Jun 25th

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Jun 23rd

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Jun 23rd

Krakatoa was the greatest volcanic eruption in recent memory...

Jun 23rd

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Jun 23rd

Oh, agitation. In 1968, a bunch of French students...

Jun 23rd

Rasputin, the visier to the last Czar of Russia, may have...

Jun 23rd

William Henry Harrison was our ninth president, the oldest...

Jun 23rd

Everything about the Trail of Tears proves that the American...

Jun 23rd

You know what’s awesome? The Society for Cutting Up...

Jun 23rd

Science Martyr part 2: Rosalind Franklin Franklin is the...

Jun 23rd

Science Martyr: Madame Curie Curie was a lady scientist, of...

Jun 23rd

No one really “invented” the hula hoop, but...

Jun 23rd

Relations between the U.S. and China have been strained for...

Jun 22nd

In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York burned...

Jun 22nd

Once upon a time there was a wall. A Berlin wall. Made by...

Jun 22nd

Misconception: The hydrogen in the Hindenburg caused it to...

Jun 22nd

The Catcher in the Rye is a pretty fun book. Mark David...

Jun 22nd

Houdini, who might have actually been made of magic, died...

Jun 22nd

Did you know they used to burn ladies? In Salem? Just lit...

Jun 22nd

What started as a twisted plot to trade hostages for weapons...

Jun 13th

Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen are the Romeo and Juliet of...

Jun 13th

Ben Franklin is a pimp. He also discovered electricity with...

Jun 13th

Former President Truman was giving a speech at UCLA in the...

Jun 13th

Gloria Steinem was an offical second wave feminist before it...

Jun 13th

Oh No! Ron Paul, OUR HERO, officially ended his campaign!...

Jun 13th

There once (in the 1980s) was a thing (ad campaign) called...

Jun 6th

Space Shuttle Columbia (named after the goddess of America,...

Jun 6th

The Titanic was boastful idolatry and God punished it with...

Jun 6th

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What is this? It’s clearly etch-a-sketched moments in history. Who are you? Why are you...

Jun 5th

Nomination #1 for the greatest DB of all history: Preston...

Jun 5th

There have been plenty of unsuccessful assassination...

Jun 4th

Andrew Jackson, man of the people, was also a pretty prime...

Jun 4th

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a philosopher, was chilling...

Jun 4th

The Crossing of the Delaware is like, the most famous...

Jun 4th

Hey! The first person of color ever to win a major...

Jun 4th

LBJ was just about the best Senate manipulator around. You...

Jun 1st

Thomas Jefferson (left) and John Adams were hardcore...

Jun 1st

Professor Albert Hofmann was chilling in Switzerland one...

Jun 1st

This may or may not be a picture of the first T-Rex to say...

Jun 1st

The Catholic Church is a weird and wacky place, and it used...

Jun 1st

Presidents need to be strong leaders. VPs just need to carry...

Jun 1st