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Jacob Nacken, born Jakob Hudson Nacken, was a German circus performer who performed throughout Europe and the United States in the early twentieth century. He began his professional career as a performer in a traveling circus as a child, and he made his debut as an abnormally tall person during the 1939 New York World’s […]
Cleopatra’s paternal dynasty was Macedonian Greek, but her mother’s identity is uncertain. Here is what coins, portraits, and historical records can—and cannot—tell us about her ancestry and appearance.
Did you know that Hitler was obsessed with the occult? Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke published a book about this in 1985, called: The Occult Roots of Nazism. In this book, Clarke analyzed the occultism in Hitler’s ideology. The most important conclusion that he formed was that many of the stories about occultism in Nazism or a certain […]
One of the most unusual things about Russia is that you probably don’t know much about it. Russia has a very long and diverse history that most people don’t know about as the biggest country on the planet. With Russian Tsars ruling Siberia and communist regimes taking over, there is so much to discover. Here […]
Elizabeth II, also known as the Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, is the last surviving head of state from World War II. I didn’t know about this as I stumbled on a picture of the longest-reigning monarch and started to dig into this story. In this article, I’ll tell you when, […]
Adolf Hitler’s paintings are pretty good. Okay, they’re not mind-blowing, but they’re so much better than what I had expected after hearing all the stories about him being rejected from art school and starting a world war. But it’s a bit more complicated than that. He failed the entry test for the Academy of Fine […]
You’ve probably heard of Genghis Khan, he conquered many countries, killed a lot of people and raped so many women while doing this — but the thing you might not yet have heard of is the fact that a lot of those women gave birth to his kids. Nowadays, there are still people that are direct descendants […]
Nikola Tesla was a revolutionary when we’re talking about energy and electricity, perhaps the most outstanding scientist of his time and maybe even of all time. In our daily lives, we need energy all day. We basically can’t live without it. Nowadays, it’s getting more challenging to bring affordable energy and electricity to keep us […]
Medieval England is one of the periods in history that interests me greatly. The mighty kings, valiant knights, and mystical tales. There were also many battles and wars during that time that have not really stayed with us. No country in Europe has a more interesting history than England. From the Nordic invasions to tales […]
Portugal’s first real serial killer, something to be proud of? I don’t know. This guy definitely made some history. Diogo Alves was a serial killer and robber who was born in Spain and raised in Portugal. Between 1836 and 1840, he was responsible for the deaths of seventy persons. He lived and committed those crimes […]