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* FORGOTTEN EVENTS *
EXPLORATION & INNOVATION
- Francisco Pizarro Conquest of the Incas
- Six forgotten Secrets of Michaelangelo’s David
- The Long and Storied Life of Mont-Sant-Michel
- The Fast and Fierce Life of the Pony Express
- The Exotic and Unreachable Timbuktu
- The 10 Best Vaccines in History
- The mother of all Inclined Railroads, for over half a century
- Who REALLY Discovered the North Pole First?
- The Grandfather of AI – the Difference Engine
- The Hunt for the Source of the River Nile
- Electric Vehicles have Existed for OVER 150 YEARS
- 7 Peculiar Facts about the 1st Modern Olympic Games of 1896
- The Forgotten Graf Zeppelin, Hindenberg’s Big Brother
- The 1912 Race to Claim the South Pole
- The eccentric Nikola Tesla’s greatest folly
- The last unexplored place on Earth – a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
- The Forgotten Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
- SKYLAB – America’s First Space Station
- Does HAARP study the Weather… or control it?
TERRORISM & GENOCIDE
- The Black Hole of Calcutta’s infamous night of horror
- The American legacy of the Cherokee Trail of Tears
- The Beast of Gevaudan – the Werewolf Origin Story
- The Wilmington Massacre – Americas First Coup
- The Wounded Knee Massacre ended the US Indian Wars
- The Red Summer Race Riots of 1919
- Devils Island, the Infamous French Penal Colony
- 1920 Wall Street Bombing – America’s first terrorist attack
- Japan Holocaust Hero – Chiune Sugihara
- The forgotten Great Chinese Famine of 1959-61
- Birmingham Bombing Killed Four Black Girls
- Josef Stalin’s Great Purge and the Brutal Gulags
- The Munich Massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- The Rwanda Genocide, a modern Holocaust
IMMIGRATION & POLITICS
- How did Roman Christianity go from Executions to Adoption?
- The Macabre Corpse Trial of Pope Formosus
- The Three Lives of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia
- Henry V’s Rousing St. Crispin’s Day Speech from Shakespeare
- An immigrants Ellis Island fate depended on 29 Questions
- “No Irish Need Apply” – an Immigrant Refugee’s Welcome
- Five Historical Facts most Americans forget
- Statue of Liberty’s powerful poem still rings true
- The Fall and Rise of Labor Unions
- 7 Peculiar Facts about the 1st Modern Olympic Games of 1896
- China vs. Tibet, a Long Century of Stalemate
- The Birth Pains of Israeli Independence
- Middle East Peace – the Egypt-Israeli Camp David Accords
- Crimea in the Crosshairs for Centuries
- Why is Greenland a part of Denmark?
* SCANDAL & REVOLUTIONS *
INFAMOUS SCANDALS & MYSTERIES
- The Lost, Banned Books of the Holy Bible
- The Last Days of the Knights Templar
- Galileo faced science deniers in the Catholic Church
- America’s first Whistleblowers were the Founding Fathers
- Australia began as a British penal colony over 230 years ago
- 6 Theories on the Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
- The many Murders of Russia’s mad monk Rasputin
- The Tragic Story of the Radium Girls
- The Infamous Hope Diamond – Curse or Coincidence
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping – real crime of the century
- The Tragic Death of Harry Houdini
- Operation Wetback – 1950’s Mass Deportation Program
- Senator Joe McCarthy and the Red Scare
- Watergate – the Scandal that took down a President
- A Divers defection, Summer love and the Montreal Olympics
- The Mystery of the Dyatlov Past Incident
FORGOTTEN REBELLIONS & REVOLUTIONS
- The Forgotten Haitian Slave Revolution
- Shays Rebellion – America’s First Insurrection
- The 7 Most Impactful Revolutions in History
- Simon Bolivar, Hero & ‘Libertador’ of South America
- Were the Luddites right all along?
- The ‘Lost Cause’ of the American Confederacy
- Why China’s Boxer Rebellion Sounds Familiar
- The Modern Spanish Civil War and Francisco Franco
- Mussolini and the Rise of FASCISM
- The Bloody Partition of India and Pakistan
- The Cold War’s forgotten Hungarian Revolution
- The Forgotten Freedom Riders of 1961
- Poland’s Solidarity movement was the first crack in Communism
- The 1989 Velvet Revolution of Czechoslovakia
- The Cuban Missile Crisis – the day Russia blinked
- The 1970 Kent State Shootings of College Protestors
- The Rise and Fall of Germanys infamous Berlin Wall
THE FAMOUS & THE INFAMOUS
* FORGOTTEN HEROINES *
18th & 19th CENTURY HEROINES
- Anne Bonny, the Fierce, Forgotten, Female Pirate
- Jeanne Baret, the forgotten first woman to circle the globe
- Diane de Poitiers– Royal Mistress Extraordinaire
- The forgotten ride of America’s female Paul Revere
- The Pirate Queen – History’s Greatest Pirate
- The woman on the dollar coin – the relentless Susan B. Anthony
- The indescribable rebel, Isabelle Eberhardt
- The audacious career of Journalist Nellie Bly
- The mysterious Madame Blavatsky – Psychic or Charlatan?
- Belle Starr – Outlaw Queen of the West
- 10 Forgotten Facts about Women’s Suffrage
- The one and only, indomitable Mary ‘Mother’ Jones
20th CENTURY HEROINES
- The secret term of America’s forgotten Woman President
- The mysterious disappearance of author Agatha Christie
- The Daring Harriet Quimby, Queen of the Air
- Mata Hari – Exotic Dancer, Mistress and French Spy
- Holocaust Heroine Irena Sendlar eclipsed Schindler’s List
- The Oversteegen Sisters – Teenage Resistance Assassin
- Lepa Radic – Teenage Resistance Partisan Executed by Nazis
- From Prostitute to Princes – the Resourceful Marguerite Alibert
- Don’t cry for me, Evita Peron
- Rosalind Franklin and the DNA Double Helix
- Mother Teresa was a living saint to the poor
- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring and the birth of the Environmental Movement
* HISTORICAL DISASTERS *
PANDEMICS & NUCLEAR
- The Bubonic Plague, AKA the Black Death
- The Medieval Dancing Plague of St. Vitus Dance
- The Hickory Polio Miracle of 1944
- Salk v Sabin and the race for the Polio Vaccine
- Castle Bravo, a human made Armageddon 1954
- The Movie that killed Actor John Wayne
- Japan’s horrific Minamata Disease was a man-made tragedy
- Who drained Russia’s vast Aral Sea?
- America’s Chernobyl – Three Mile Island
- The lingering legacy of Russia’s Chernobyl nuclear disaster 1986
SHIPWRECKS & FLOODS
- Port Royal, the Wicked City on Earth, Sank beneath the Sea in 1692
- The Lost Spanish Treasure Fleets
- The REAL Macaronis – Britain’s Infamous Men’s Club
- Remember the Sultana! The Civil War riverboat disaster
- Five reasons the 1889 Johnstown Flood shouldn’t have happened
- Galveston Texas and the deadly Hurricane of 1900
- The SS Eastland Disaster beats both Titanic and Lusitania
- The Forgotten USS Akron Airship Disaster
- The Lusitania sank in just 18 minutes, beating even the Titanic
- The Tragic Sinking of China’s SS Kiangya
- The world’s worst maritime disaster — MS Wilhelm Gustloff
- The 1977 Tenerife Airport Disaster
FIRES & EXPLOSIONS
- Who burned the great Library of Alexandria?
- The deadliest Fire Disaster in history? Not London, not Chicago
- Did Mrs. O’Leary’s cow really start the Great Chicago Fire?
- Krakatoa Volcano: The eruption that shook the globe
- Deadliest Circus Train Wreck in History
- What caused Russia’s mysterious 1908 Tunguska Blast
- The 1911 Triangle ShirtWaist Factory Fire
- The German Reichstag Fire sparked Hitler’s rise to power
- Bhopal India remains the world’s most horrific industrial disaster
- Welcome to Hell! The American town that burned from beneath
- Before the Challenger and Columbia disasters, there was Apollo 1
POLLUTION & NATURE
- The Worst Coal Mining Disasters in History
- The Irish Famine caused the 1st Immigrant Refugee Crisis
- The Hard Lesson of California’s Shrinking Salton Sea
- The Great White Hurricane Blizzard of 1888
- The Donora Death Fog of 1948
- The Great Smog of London killed thousands of souls
- A Brief History of Modern Climate Change
- Welcome to the Gates of Hell – Darvaza Fire Crater
- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is as big as Texas
- Americas hazardous waste ghost town – Times Beach
- Life before Earth Day and the Environmental Movement
* WORLD WARS *
WORLD WAR I
- How a Teenage Boy started World War I
- The World War I Christmas Truce of 1914
- “In Flanders Fields” WWI poem written 100 years ago
- The Indestructible Soldier – Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart
- Both Germany and Allies used Poison Gas in WWI
- White Friday 1916 – History’s deadliest avalanche occurred during WWI
- The 1917 Great Halifax Explosion eclipsed only by Hiroshima
- The 1918 SPANISH FLU Beats all Pandemics Since the Black Plague
- Why does the Middle East have straight-line borders?
- Iraq and Iran did not exist prior to World War I
WORLD WAR II
- 10 Propaganda tricks Nazis used to sway the German people
- The Pacific Clippers around the world flight
- The World War II Battle of Los Angeles
- “Razor” Tojo – Japan’s Adolf Hitler
- The Forgotten Sook Ching Massacre
- Operation Pastorius, the Forgotten Nazi Terror Plot on US Soil
- Catcher, Lawyer, Soldier, Spy – The odd life of Moe Berg
- How could Europe have allowed the Holocaust to occur?
- The tragic fate of the SS St. Louis’ Jewish refugees
- The 1945 Yalta BIG THREE Conference – Russia, US and UK
- The Secret Breton Woods Conference
- Operation Gunnerside: The WWII Mission you never heard of
- The Most Heroic Rescue – The Great Raid at Cabanatuan
- The Lost Amber Room – Russian treasure and Nazi plunder
- The German POW Great Escape from Wales
* COUNT SAINT GERMAIN *
The Count Saint Germain
- The Man Who Would Not Die [historical novel – Book 1]
- Count Saint Germain [historical novel – Book 2]
- Count Saint Germain music and media
- 10 Theories about the immortal Count Saint Germain
- The enigmatic Count Saint Germain was a Renaissance Man
- The Count Saint Germain, a real life Dr Who?
- 10 Reasons Saint Germain sounds so darn familiar