The number everyone quotes is twelve. Twelve Titans, twelve original gods, neat and clean. It is the kind of satisfying round number that mythology teachers write on whiteboards and tourists read on plaques at... Read More →
Most people know Ares. The brooding Olympian with the spear and the bad reputation – disliked by his own parents, repeatedly humiliated in battle, and somehow still managing to be one of the most... Read More →
Say “pyramid” and most people picture exactly one place: Egypt. Maybe they conjure the Great Pyramid of Giza, rising from the desert like a limestone mountain someone forgot to erode. It’s an understandable reflex.... Read More →
Somewhere on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, about 400 miles southwest of the Azores, a U.S. Navy submarine sits in roughly two miles of water with a pair of nuclear torpedoes still aboard.... Read More →
Twelve of the first eighteen American presidents owned enslaved people at some point in their lives. Eight of them owned enslaved people while actively serving as president. They presided over a nation founded on... Read More →
The Vice Presidency has always been a strange job. You’re one heartbeat away from the most powerful office in the world, but nobody voted for you to have it. Nine times in American history,... Read More →
Before joining the United States, four states existed as fully independent nations. One was a kingdom recognized by Europe. One fought a war for independence. One governed itself for 14 years while America refused to acknowledge it. And one declared independence on a Tuesday and was gone before the month ended. Read More →
Before Washington, D.C., America’s capital bounced between nine different cities—fleeing British troops, mutinous soldiers, and deadly yellow fever epidemics. Here’s every city that hosted the U.S. government. Read More →
Eight American presidents died in office—four by assassination, four from illness. From live snake remedies to mistresses at deathbeds, here’s every president who never made it out of the White House alive. Read More →
Ask most Americans who the first president was, and they’ll confidently say George Washington. They’re wrong-sort of. Before Washington took the oath of office in 1789, fourteen men held the title “President of the... Read More →
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