Category: History

The following 1895 article discusses the possibility that the Ark of the Covenant was actually a battery or an early form of the leyden jar….

The pirates from history rarely died peaceful deaths. They lived their lives in violence and treachery, and often died in battle or at the end…

The General Slocum was a side wheel passenger steamboat with a hull built out of white oak and yellow pine. On June 15, 1904, over…

The Windsor Hotel was built in Manhattan, New York in 1873. It was a luxury hotel for the rich and elite who preferred to lived…

On January 28, 1922, shortly after 9 pm, the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, DC collapsed under the heavy weight of snow. The…

In 1921, a fire broke out at the Hotel Colonial in Hoboken, New Jersey. Eleven lives were tragically ended. The burned bodies were taken to…

Crocodile Mummies According to the Smithsonian, ancient Egyptians hunted crocodiles for the sole purpose of turning them into mummies. That’s right. In ancient Egypt, embalmers…

Impalement was a torturous form of execution. There were several ways in which our ancestors impaled people, and research shows that Vlad the Impaler used…

Blackbeard is probably one of the most recognizable names in the history of pirates, but his career as a captain on a pirate ship was…

Accounts about the life of Captain William Kidd vary. We know that he was born in Scotland in either 1645 or 1654. Almost nothing is…