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When Cross-Dressers Took Down The Spartans Jul 20, 2026

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In 379 BC, exiled government officials from Thebes devised a plan to retake the city-state from their Spartan captors. It involved a seven man military crew who disguised themselves as high end prostitutes for a winter banquet to assassinate the Spartan governors and military leaders and rally the citizens to fight back.

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Why Bastille Day Is Stupid Jul 13, 2026

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Much like the French Revolution as a whole, the event that kicked it all off, the Storming of the Bastille, was a sh*tshow that was in no way about what everyone involved claimed it was about. And, as was tradition during the French Revolution, it resulted in the pointless deaths of innocent people, even more violence, and a narrative that didn't align at all with what actually happened.

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The Peg Legged Playboy Who Helped Write The Constitution Jul 06, 2026

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Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman, framer of the Constitution, and one of the most under appreciated Founding Fathers of the United States. He also had a peg leg, loved messing around with married women, became the minister of France during the Reign of Terror where he actively rode for Louis XVI, and helped develop New York City as we know it. He was a total wildcard.

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The Massacre At Frank Lloyd Wright's Love Cottage Jun 29, 2026

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The most famous architect in American history might have been a
genius, but he was also a real piece of sh*t. After his wife refused
to grant him a divorce, Frank Lloyd Wright ran away to Europe with
another married woman. The love affair was one of the biggest social
scandals of the early 20th Century in America. The pair were in love,
but the ending was far from happy. In fact, it was insane.

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History's Bad Dads Jun 22, 2026

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We cover three of history's worst famous fathers who had very different parenting styles.

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The World Cup's Most Violent Match Ever Jun 15, 2026

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In 1962, World Cup host Chile was set to play Italy in their final group stage match. Both sides needed a win to advance to the knockout stage. What ensued, thanks to a pair of Italian newspaper articles calling host nation Chile "backwards," "illiterate," and "full of prostitutes," was less of a soccer match and more of a blood feud. This is the story of "The Battle of Santiago."

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Major League Wife Swap Jun 08, 2026

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In 1973, the strangest trade broke out between two New York Yankees teammates. This is the career defining story of both Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich.

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The Man Who Inspired Saving Private Ryan's Gnarliest Moments Jun 01, 2026

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Staff Sergeant Ray Lambert hit Dog Green Sector of Omaha Beach with the first wave on D-Day. He was a medic. His job was to save, not kill. But that fact did not prevent him from taking an absolute BEATING on the beach that day. Despite multiple horrific wounds throughout the morning, he never stopped treating wounded soldiers. He might have had the most brutal day of anyone on Omaha Beach who didn't die or lose a limb. Still, he never stopped saving lives. Not even when his own side accidentally tried to drown him.

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How The Green Mountain Boys Broke Benedict Arnold May 25, 2026

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The capture of Fort Ticonderoga early in the American Revolution was a crucial, if militarily uneventful, victory early in America's fight for independence. The capture cut British Canada off from the 13 colonies and supplied important heavy artillery to force the British out of Boston. And it was all accomplished by glory hounds Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, a ragtag group of men more interested in capturing the fort's booze than the fort itself, and what sounds like the worst spy plan in U.S. history.

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The Time We Almost Nuked The Moon May 18, 2026

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After the launch of Sputnik, the U.S. needed a response to show they had not fallen behind the Soviets during the Cold War. The Air Force put together a top-secret, very real plan under the name Project A119 to detonate a nuclear bomb on the surface of the moon for the rest of the world to see. Carl Sagan was brought in to do calculations on the blast radius and the Space Race almost went atomic.

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