Stuff You Missed in History Class

Attacks on women and children of Gevaudan in the 1760s sparked a huge effort to hunt and kill the mystery beast behind them. While efforts [Read more]

Christina was a smart, learned woman, but not a particularly good ruler. Her entire life was marked by being kind of a contradictory, restless character [Read more]

While his name instantly conjures an image of the dashing, sophisticated vampire that helped spark an entire horror film genre, Lugosi really lost more than [Read more]

While he’s mostly associated with the role of Dracula, Bela Lugosi’s early life was significantly affected by WWI, the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and [Read more]

Transgender activist Sylvia Rivera is often compared to Rosa Parks. She became famous, in part, for participating in the Stonewall riots, and she spent her [Read more]

In 1959, nine students ventured into the Ural mountains for a ski hiking trip, and never returned. While much speculation has swirled for more than [Read more]

Allen’s later years were marred by some unwise political alliances he made in his effort to gain independence for Vermont. After his political work cooled, [Read more]

Ethan Allen was a huge personality, a founder of Vermont, and an important figure in the Revolutionary War. His story also includes some fascinating side-notes, [Read more]

This famous Hormel Foods product was invented in the 1930s to make use of a surplus of shoulder meat from pigs. Not only was it [Read more]

Great Britain didn’t only send criminals to Australia as punishment; they also wanted to colonize the continent. But to do that, they had to send [Read more]