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  1. tPF 1060 Die in French Mine Disaster
  2. tPF Five Times Over - The Brits produced enough chem weapons to kill us this many times
  3. tPF AntikyThera Mechanism, shows seriously advanced thinking
  4. tPF The 1904 Olympic marathon was the wildest sporting event of all time...
  5. tPF How the cannibals from New Guinea ate the heir to the Rockefeller’s fortune...
  6. WW1 German tunnel discovered in France.
  7. tPF This WWII Attack That Was The Ultimate Betrayal No, not Barbarossa or Pearl Harbor
  8. tPF Skylab: The myth of the mutiny in space
  9. tPF Commie Coercive Methods for Compliance
  10. Treasures from mystery civilisation could rewrite history of China
  11. tPF The Doctor Who Starved Her Patients to Death
  12. Surprising Truths about the Legendary Scythians Revealed
  13. Challenger child Memory - the vehicle has exploded"
  14. Cairo’s mummies get a new home. And a grand procession on the way.
  15. tPF The Children of the 7 Most Powerful Nazi Leaders
  16. tPF Ancient coins may solve the ​mystery of a murderous 1600s pirate.
  17. The First Punic War’s Mortal Enemies: The Romans Versus Carthage
  18. tPF What Happened After the Liberation of Auschwitz
  19. 5,800-Year-Old Surprising Archaeological Find In UK
  20. 10 Surprising Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Roman Legionaries
  21. tPF 9 New Deal Infrastructure Projects That Changed America
  22. tPF How the Death of 6,000 Sheep Spurred the American Debate on Chemical Weapons
  23. 'Lost golden city' found in Egypt reveals lives of ancient pharaohs
  24. The Unsung Ranger Behind the U.S. Forest Service’s Iconic Signs
  25. tPF Audrey Hepburn was a spy for the Dutch Resistance
  26. tPF The US' lost, ancient megacity
  27. tPF how the fall of the Roman empire paved the road to modernity
  28. tPF The wild story of the grandmas who “beat” the stock market
  29. tPF Today in History: American Revolution begins at Battle of Lexington
  30. tPF The Great cottonmouth-catching get-rich-quick scheme of 1956...
  31. tPF 50 years ago, a Texan changed happy hour forever...
  32. tPF The secret mission to unearth part of a 142-year-old experiment...
  33. In the tombs of Saqqara, new discoveries are rewriting ancient Egypt’s history
  34. tPF In ancient Rome, murder was a private business, unless....
  35. In Ancient Turkey, Gladiators Fought at This Colosseum-Like Amphitheater
  36. tPF How the East India Company became the world’s most powerful business
  37. Was King Solomon the ancient world’s first shipping magnate?
  38. tPF The untold story of the Hudson’s Bay Company
  39. 10 Ways Ancient Greece Changed The World
  40. tPF How Personal Ads Helped Conquer the American West.
  41. tPF The First Army Destroyed By Small Arms The battle that changed history.
  42. 1787’s Northwest Ordinance.
  43. tPF Kent State - Artist helped solve May 4 mystery
  44. America Did Not Invent Slavery — It Ended Slavery
  45. This day in history: Osama bin Laden killed by U.S. forces
  46. The 45 Communist Goals As Read Into the Congressional Record 1963......
  47. tPF Kent State University - May 3, 1970
  48. Egyptian archaeologists unearth rare tombs dated back to before Pharaohs
  49. tPF The extraordinary story of two Pacific voyages of discovery ​a thousand years apart..
  50. tPF The girl in the Kent State photo...
  51. tPF A mother, a son, and a wartime secret...
  52. tPF The Asian American Women Who Fought to Make Their Mark in WWII
  53. tPF The Democrat Party and the end of Reconstruction
  54. 1619 vs. 1776: When Was America Founded?
  55. tPF That one time Hitler's girlfriend visited Iceland and the British invaded...
  56. Lewis and Clark depart to explore the Northwest
  57. tPF Cracking the Code of Letterlocking A tale of Black Chambers and lost correspondence
  58. tPF The Missing Grave of Margaret Corbin, Revolutionary War Veteran
  59. May 17, 1954: Brown v. Board of Ed is decided
  60. The Right of Revolution in the American Founding
  61. tPF How a King’s Feast of Sturgeon Sank to the Bottom of the Baltic Sea
  62. 100 Years on the Lincoln Highway
  63. tPF How Adolf Hitler's Toilet Ended Up in a Small Town in NJ
  64. Who Was Jim Crow
  65. tPF In 1859, a murderous congressman pioneered the insanity defense...
  66. Toba catastrophe theory and genetic bottleneck
  67. tPF How the 18th-Century Gay Bar Survived and Thrived in a Deadly Environment
  68. Hunter-gatherers first launched violent raids at least 13,400 years ago
  69. May 30, 1431: Joan of Arc is burned at the stake for heresy
  70. American Slavery and Russian Serfdom.
  71. A Brief Synopsis on the History of Housing Projects
  72. May 31st, 1921...The Tulsa Massacre
  73. tPF Tattoos, Identity, and The Disturbing Fate of ‘Monsieur Bonheur’
  74. tPF Seven misconceptions about the Civil War...
  75. Warning: Antifa: History and Tactics | Andy Ngo
  76. June 12, 1987: "Tear down this wall"
  77. Polynesians Discovered Antarctica Over 1,300 Years Ago, New Research Suggests
  78. Where is Tojo?
  79. Who Killed Alexander the Great?
  80. Why Did the USS Thresher Sink? New Declassified Documents Reveal the Truth
  81. tPF The True Story Behind ‘The Courier’
  82. tPF California’s drought may have helped solve the mystery of a 1965 plane crash...
  83. tPF Seven historical cases of cannibalism...
  84. How America Won History's Largest Naval Battle at Leyte Gulf
  85. Ancient Necropolis Discovered in 17th-Century Croatian Palace’s Garden
  86. Inside the tombs of saqqara
  87. My arguments with Conservatives on TPF.
  88. Two Viking burials, separated by an ocean, contain close kin
  89. tPF June 21, 1989 - US Supreme Court ruled flag-burning protected by First Amendment
  90. Very sad Anniversary -- Nazi attack on USSR June 22, 1941.
  91. tPF The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country
  92. tPF The Raw Ore Centerpieces That Turned Grueling Labor Into Cutesy Dioramas
  93. How ancient people fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs
  94. The Life of Joseph Stalin.
  95. This Battleship Was Slammed by Three Kamikazes and Kept Fighting
  96. tPF The oldest shark attack victim was just discovered 3,000 years after the incident...
  97. Colosseum's underground labyrinth restored to eerie splendour
  98. tPF The real urban jungle: how ancient societies reimagined what cities could be
  99. Map of Medieval Europe
  100. tPF When the Street Light First Came to London, Disaster Ensued
  101. USS Missouri Might Have Been the Deadliest Battleship Ever
  102. Tokyo Trial
  103. tPF Military Chaplain’s Cause for Sainthood Advances Father Joseph Verbis Lafleur
  104. On this date: President Lincoln signed first US federal income tax act
  105. tPF July 5, 1946 - Bikini introduced
  106. tPF Blast From the Past In 1979, a U.S. satellite detected signs of a nuclear explosion.
  107. tPF Did lead poisoning cause downfall of Roman Empire? The jury is still out
  108. tPF Found: A Massive Medieval Cathedral From a ‘Forgotten’ Nubian Kingdom
  109. Palatial, 2,000-Year-Old Public Building Revealed in Jerusalem
  110. Surigao Strait: The Last Bloody Battleship Battle Ever Fought
  111. tPF TheGreatMigration: Recalling the one-way mission to harass the First Cold War Soviet
  112. Surprising Stone Age Knowledge Revealed on a Mammoth Bone Bracelet
  113. tPF Baalbek Trilithon Baalbek, Lebanon The largest hewn stone in history.
  114. The Nearly Forgotten Story Of How Russia Released A Deadly Anthrax Strain
  115. 10 of The Wildest of The Wild West
  116. tPF Forget Atlantis – here are four real underwater cities..
  117. tPF In 1590, Starving Parisians Ground Human Bones Into Bread
  118. tPF The Tragic Life and Global Legacy of the Last Hawaiian Princess
  119. Farmer Stumbles Onto Egyptian Pharaoh’s 2,600-Year-Old Stone Slab
  120. tPF The Pirate Radio Broadcaster Who Occupied Alcatraz and Terrified the FBI
  121. The Lost City of Thinis, First Capital of a United Egypt
  122. tPF Sputnik IV Crash Site - Manitowoc, Wisconsin
  123. Derinkuyu: the ancient underground city, once home to 20,000 people
  124. Out of Africa's midlife crisis
  125. 160th Anniversary of the First Battle of Manassas
  126. 4,000-Year-Old Mesopotamian City Discovered In the Shadow Of Ur
  127. Why were the Knights Templar So Interested in Harran?
  128. Anchor Church Caves: Anglo-Saxon Home and Oldest House in Britain?
  129. tPF How a small French newspaper began the Tour de France...
  130. What Was Life Like in Sumer, History’s First Civilization?
  131. 1,500-year-old Visigoth Sarcophagus Found at Roman Villa Site
  132. tPF The German experiment that placed foster children with pedophiles...
  133. tPF 100 Years on a Dirty Dog: The History of Greyhound
  134. Former president Ulysses S. Grant dies
  135. The Medieval and Religious Origins of the European State
  136. tPF The legal fight over WWII Panther tank found in a German basement...
  137. tPF The Soviet spy steam railway that's still running...
  138. tPF The ballad of the Chowchilla bus kidnapping
  139. tPF A photo tour of the most notorious sites of New York Mafia history - today
  140. tPF How pigeons helped fight World War I...
  141. tPF The True Story of the 1963 Kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr...
  142. Burial practices point to an interconnected early Medieval Europe
  143. tPF Marine who used a Johnson rifle to knoc off about 40 Japanese. His name ?
  144. 16th Century Executioner (1573-1617) Franz Schmidt’s Diary
  145. 1619 Project, Touted as Racial Reckoning, Ignores Democratic Party Racism
  146. Visualizing the 4,000 Year History of Global Power
  147. tPF The roughneck US cowboys who drilled Britain's secret WWII oil wells
  148. Forget Hitler - it was America that snubbed black Olympian Jesse Owens
  149. How Progressives Rewrote American History
  150. The Failure of LBJ's Great Society and What It Means for the 21st Century
  151. What Unites Americans?
  152. tPF How a Grave Cleaner Uncovers the Past…
  153. A very short history of slavery
  154. tPF MD who performed reverse circumcisions to help Jews escape the Nazis...
  155. tPF An immense mystery older than Stonehenge...
  156. tPF Everything Was Fake but Her Wealth
  157. tPF Peep shows, porn theaters and sex workers of 1970s and 1980s Times Square...
  158. tPF Al Capone’s life is under fresh scrutiny with an online auction of personal items...
  159. OK, history nuts...let's hear your input on how you would have done it !
  160. A couple of films from Disney's 1940s WW2 propaganda cartoon portfolio
  161. Anyone know how WWII rationing worked?
  162. old time coal miners
  163. tPF Remembering When Bermuda Was an Onion Island
  164. tPF The story of amusement parks is the story of America...
  165. tPF U.S. Army Tried Portable Nuclear Power at Remote Bases 60 Years Ago
  166. tPF September 2, 1945 - Today in History: Japan Surrenders
  167. tPF 1915 September 06 - First tank produced
  168. Million Dollar Point Luganville, Vanuatu
  169. The Challenges of Reclaiming Filipino Louisiana’s Centuries-Old History
  170. tPF The Robert E. Lee Monument, A History and Preservation
  171. tPF World War Two: The forgotten Indian soldiers of Dunkirk
  172. tPF The Wild Conspiracy Theory That the Titanic Never Sank
  173. tPF What Progressives Wrought
  174. Never Kick a Woman...a good example of Fleischer Studio's animation art
  175. WV Coal disaster
  176. tPF Revisiting the Attica prison riot in real time 50 years later...
  177. tPF Sean Wilentz Fires Back on the 1619 Project and the Climate of Anti-History
  178. tPF How Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws Led New Yorkers to Make the World’s Worst Sandwich
  179. tPF What did Medieval monks do all day?
  180. History of these shots
  181. World War Two: The brothers who fled Nazi occupation by kayak
  182. tPF Max Weber & Modernity
  183. tPF Lance-Corporal Hitler - WW1 Trench Runner
  184. tPF Is Jesus Historical? What Do The Romans Say About Him?
  185. October 3, 1993... TF Ranger
  186. Bad Neighborhoods in Ancient Rome
  187. tPF Brush with Catastrophe: The Day the U.S. Almost Nuked Itself
  188. Black Confederate Soldiers?
  189. The old time moms were something
  190. tPF Drug Use in Ancient Greece and Rome
  191. LWW'S "On this very day" Posts.... -
  192. tPF These Carved Camels Are the Oldest Life-Sized Reliefs in World
  193. tPF The True Story of the Death of Stalin
  194. Congressional Brawl...1858...yes, it WAS worse than now
  195. tPF White Riot - In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall
  196. We Finally Know How 43 Students on a Bus Vanished Into Thin Air
  197. Why did the Free City State Disappear?
  198. Israel winery: 1,500-year-old Byzantine wine complex found
  199. tPF The Daring Diplomat Who Proved One Person Can Thwart an Empire
  200. Say what you will about Karl Marx: He would’ve HATED AOC and the left
  201. tPF Mapping the Ghostly Traces of Abandoned Railroads
  202. Our Republic is Not Dead
  203. Roman Concrete In Ancient Tomb Reveals Secrets To Its Resilience
  204. tPF What was life like after the Bronze age collapse?
  205. Who were the Philistines? (History of the Philistines explained)
  206. tPF An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the Age of Discov
  207. Europe’s Influence on Arab Radicalism- and fascism
  208. tPF Before America had its witch trials, Europe had werewolf trials...
  209. The Treaty of Westphalia
  210. tPF Japanese ghost ships sunk during the battle of Iwo Jima are raised from the deep
  211. Amazing some survived
  212. tPF Why the United States once bombed an erupting volcano...
  213. tPF Amphitheater excavation unearths a cell where gladiators waited for death fights...
  214. tPF How Tainted Treats Led to a Halloween Tragedy in 1858
  215. Onionskin...from back in the carbon paper days of carbon copies.
  216. Remember this?
  217. Bettie Page & Irving Klaw
  218. tPF The Long, Hidden History of the Viking Obsession With Werewolves
  219. tPF The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb...
  220. tPF How a drifter from Milwaukee became the chief executioner of the Cuban Revolution...
  221. Thomas Jefferson endorsed the 'INSURRECTION' that my leftist friends are all fretting
  222. tPF Treasure Hunters Believe They Are On 'Brink' Of Finding The 'World's Largest Treasure
  223. tPF A teen hitchhiker killed in a 1961 crash is identified after 60 years...
  224. Tomb Of Pharaoh Ramesses II Treasurer Ptah-M-Wia Discovered In Saqqara
  225. See the Largest Trove of Early Medieval Gold Coins Ever Found in England
  226. Has the log from Noah's Ark been found?
  227. tPF 17 of the most unusual heists in history...
  228. tPF A melting alpine glacier reveals hidden WWI tunnels and bunker...
  229. tPF To Build an 18th-Century Ship, Shipwrights Had to Remaster a Lost Craft
  230. tPF That one time when Mississippi banned Sesame Street...
  231. 2 SS Panthers vs. 21 US Shermans
  232. Treasure of the Sands: Lost Egyptian “Golden City” Found near Thebes
  233. World Series: The sports data pioneer who spotted baseball's big fix of 1919
  234. One Man’s Quest to Preserve the World’s Smallest Oil Refinery
  235. Wow...some of those wrestlers die young!
  236. tPF Everything You Thought You Knew About ‘Hobo Code’ Is Wrong
  237. Archaeologists Discover ‘Lost,’ 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Sun Temple
  238. tPF Why the shipyards that built the Titanic still influence Belfast
  239. Caligula's Gardens
  240. In Dobbs v. Jackson, History is on Mississippi's Side
  241. CIA continues to conceal JFK assassination files. But here’s what we do know
  242. Israeli Archaeologists Unveil Hellenistic Fortress Destroyed by Jewish Forces in 112
  243. tPF Before haunted houses, there were Hell banquets...
  244. tPF How the Slinky played an important role in World War II...
  245. tPF For decades, southern states considered Thanksgiving an act of northern aggression..
  246. Antifa And Its Origins
  247. tPF The strange history of sawing a woman in half...
  248. tPF Dance floor discovered from Emperor Caligula's party yacht - guess where?
  249. The Doomed Voyage of Pepsi’s Soviet Navy
  250. tPF The medieval Dutch solution to flooding...