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Putting Criminals On Ice

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We will ride into battle upon our...skateboards!

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The Great Cat Massacre of Rue Saint-Severin

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Success Through Shitty Design!

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Holy Hand Grenades of Okinawa: Thou shalt smite 75 Japs by thine self and thy strong arm

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Before Drug Prohibition, There Was the War on Calico

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Julius Caesar gets captured by pirates who demand ransom. He laughed and told them to raise the amount while promising to kill them all once it was paid. He did.

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Prohibition Worked So Well That ATF Agent Izzy Epstein Bragged He Could Get A Drink In Any City Within 30 Minutes

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Teddy Roosevelt Got Sued for Libel. He Said He ‘Enjoyed’ the Trial

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A Monkey Could Do This Job! [592x600 - 48KB]

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Paul Bunyan myth based on a real person

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The True-Life Horror That Inspired Moby-Dick

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Spoils of War

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How ‘Unicorn Horns’ Became the Poison Antidote of Choice for Paranoid Royals

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Pepsi: 6th Largest Navy In the World

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Berbalang Blues

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Bards "Leading" Armies, Not Just In Fiction!

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The Time Army Rangers Got In A Gunfight With The Crips

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Xmas In Tampa: 1 Sewer Tree, 2 Bad Santas, 3 Dead Deer, 4(7) Lawsuits, 5 Injured Patrons, 6 Quarantined Penguins...

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Getten Ze Panzer! [750x582 - 135KB]

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Don't have the time put your rightful claim on the English throne because you are too busy taking the Holy Land? Too bad. Finders Keepers! Losers Weepers! Finders Keepers! Losers Weepers!

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Fort Snelling's 1827 hospital staff were all too drunk to do paperwork

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Clodius and the Bona Dea scandal

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Catherine de Medici's "Flying Squadron" brought all the boys to her yard

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Austrians Hate This One Simple Trick!

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