Did Sultan Moulay Ismail of Morocco father 1000 Children?
Sultan Moulay Ismail was so protective of his four wives and 500 concubines that any man who just looked at any one of them was punished by death.
The Tragic Story of Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s First Prime Minister
Patrice Lumumba became Congo's first prime minister just as Belgium, the colonial ruler of the region, was preparing to grant her independence on June 30, 1960.
Why King Edward VIII of England gave up his throne for a Woman in...
On December 11, 1936, Edward VIII (1894-1972), King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Emperor of...
Tsutomu Yamaguchi: The Man Who Survived Two Atomic Bombs
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was preparing to leave Hiroshima when the atomic bomb fell. The 29-year-old naval engineer was on a three-month-long business trip for...
100 Days of Hell: The 1994 Rwandan Genocide
The Rwandan Genocide occurred over the course of 100 days in 1994, between April 7 and mid-July. Nearly a million people...
Martin Luther King Jr: 25 Interesting Facts you did not know
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the highest civilian award of the United States of America) to Martin Luther King.
Did Alexander Graham Bell kill the 20th President of America?
On the morning of July 2, 1881, the 20th President of America, James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) was preparing for a trip...
How Pope John XII turned the Vatican to a Whorehouse
John XII preferred battles to Bible study, hunting to holiness, and was a notorious adulterer and liar. The prestige of the papacy was at its lowest ebb.
Thomas Blood: A Thief pardoned, rewarded for stealing the King’s Crown
On May 9, 1671, one “Colonel” Thomas Blood made a bold and daring attempt to steal the British crown jewels. He was narrowly thwarted,...
