The Sacred Band: This elite force of the Theban army was made up of pairs of fighters devoted to each other
Nazis who assisted in the Holocaust and what happened to them
Audrey Munson – America’s First Supermodel and the first actress to appear nude in film spent the last 65 years of her life in a psychiatric asylum
Las Vegas casino manager Carl Cohen became a local folk hero after he knocked the caps off Frank Sinatra’s front teeth
The Doomsday Clock of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at University of Chicago
Before becoming the founder of the Impressionist movement, Claude Monet was an aspiring caricature artist
Cynocephali, the dog-headed people, are a still popular but questionable legend
In the Middle Ages, devil-fearing Christians killed cats, which carried the unintended consequence of increasing the rat population and the spread of the Black Death
The Holy Thorn Reliquary: one of the greatest relics of medieval Christianity for which it is believed to hold a single thorn from the Crown of Thorns
During the American Civil War, Walt Whitman volunteered as a nurse and treated wounded Union soldiers
