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FORGOTTEN EVENTS
IMMIGRATION & POLITICS
- An immigrants Ellis Island fate depended on 29 Questions
- “No Irish Need Apply” – an Immigrant Refugee’s Welcome
- Statue of Liberty’s powerful poem still rings true
- Gun Control and the U.S. 2nd Amendment
- Middle East Peace – the Egypt-Israeli Camp David Accords
- The Fall and Rise of Labor Unions
- Five Historical Facts most Americans forget
- The Birth Pains of Israeli Independence
TERRORISM & GENOCIDE
- The American legacy of the Cherokee Trail of Tears
- The Black Hole of Calcutta’s infamous night of horror
- The Wilmington Massacre – Americas First Coup
- The Wounded Knee Massacre ended the US Indian Wars
- 1920 Wall Street Bombing – America’s first terrorist attack
- Japan Holocaust Hero – Chiune Sugihara
- The forgotten Great Chinese Famine of 1959-61
- Josef Stalin’s Great Purge and the Brutal Gulags
- The Rwanda Genocide, a modern Holocaust
- 12 Deadliest US Mass Shootings are all since 1981
EXPLORATION & INNOVATION
- Francisco Pizarro Conquest of the Incas
- The Fast and Fierce Life of the Pony Express
- The Exotic and Unreachable Timbuktu
- King Henry V’s Rousing St. Crispin’s Day Speech from Shakespeare
- The Long and Storied Life of Mont-Sant-Michel
- Six forgotten Secrets of Michaelangelo’s David
- The 10 Best Vaccines in History
- The mother of all Inclined Railroads, for over half a century
- The Grandfather of AI – the Difference Engine
- The eccentric Nikola Tesla’s greatest folly
- The last unexplored place on Earth – a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
- Does HAARP study the Weather… or control it?
SCANDAL & REVOLUTIONS
INFAMOUS SCANDALS
- Senator Joe McCarthy and the Red Scare
- The Lost, Banned Books of the Holy Bible
- The Last Days of the Knights Templar
- America’s first Whistleblowers were the Founding Fathers
- Galileo faced science deniers in the Catholic Church
- Australia began as a British penal colony over 230 years ago
- The many Murders of Russia’s mad monk Rasputin
- The Infamous Hope Diamond – Curse or Coincidence
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping – real crime of the century
- A Divers defection, Summer love and the Montreal Olympics
FORGOTTEN REVOLUTIONS & REBELLIONS
- How did Christianity go from Executions to Acceptance?
- The Forgotten Haitian Slave Revolution
- Shays Rebellion – America’s First Insurrection
- The 7 Most Impactful Revolutions in History
- The Modern Spanish Civil War and Francisco Franco
- Mussolini and the Rise of FASCISM
- The ‘Lost Cause’ of the American Confederacy
- The Bloody Partition of India and Pakistan
- The Cold War’s forgotten Hungarian Revolution
- 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 Rise and Fall of Germanys infamous Berlin Wall
THE FAMOUS & THE INFAMOUS
Andrew Jackson, the Founding Fathers’ Donald Trump
Orson Welles Halloween Radio Play panicked America in 1938
Teddy Roosevelt’s darkest day was not as U.S. president
‘Count’ Cagliostro, Europe’s Charlatan Extraordinaire
Napoleon’s Failed Invasion of Russia
Billionaire Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose flying boat
FORGOTTEN HEROINES
18th & 19th CENTURY HEROINES
- Anne Bonny, the Fierce, Forgotten, Female Pirate
- Jeanne Baret, the forgotten first woman to circle the globe
- The forgotten ride of America’s female Paul Revere
- 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
- From Prostitute to Princess – Marguerite Alibert
20th CENTURY HEROINES
- Typhoid Mary Mallon – Villain or Victim?
- The secret term of America’s forgotten Woman President
- The mysterious disappearance of author Agatha Christie
- Holocaust Heroine Irena Sendlar eclipsed Schindler’s List
- The Oversteegen Sisters – Teenage Resistance Assassin
- Lepa Radic – Teenage Resistance Partisan Executed by Nazis
- Don’t cry for me, Evita Peron
- Mother Teresa was a living saint to the poor
- Mata Hari – Exotic Dancer, Mistress and French Spy
- From Prostitute to Princes – the Resourceful Marguerite Alibert
HISTORICAL DISASTERS
PANDEMICS & NUCLEAR
- The Bubonic Plague, AKA the Black Death
- The 1918 Spanish Flu beats all pandemics since the Black Plague
- Salk v Sabin and the race for the Polio Vaccine
- Castle Bravo, a human made Armageddon 1954
- Japan’s horrific Minamata Disease was a man-made tragedy
- Who drained Russia’s vast Aral Sea?
- The Three Mile Island Incident was America’s Chernobyl 1973
- 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
- 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 Lusitania sank in just 18 minutes, beating even the Titanic
- The world’s worst maritime disaster — MS Wilhelm Gustloff
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
- 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 Hard Lesson of California’s Shrinking Salton Sea
- 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
- The Forgotten Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
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
- 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
- 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 Secret Breton Woods Conference
- “Razor” Tojo – Japan’s Adolf Hitler
- 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
- Operation Gunnerside: The WWII Mission you never heard of
- The Lost Amber Room – Russian treasure and Nazi plunder
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
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