■ True Stories
The British Pig That Nearly Started a War
In 1859 a British pig ate an American farmer's potatoes. The farmer shot it. Eleven days later there…
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Ireland Was Exporting Food to England While People Starved
Ireland Was Exporting Food to England While a Million People Starved One million Irish people died between 1845…
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The Country That Sold Itself to a Private Company
The British East India Company was a private corporation that conquered and governed India for nearly a century.…
■ Dark History
The African Kingdom That Sold Its Own People
The Kingdom of Dahomey was one of West Africa's most powerful states. It was also one of the…
■ Dark History
The Real Inventors of the Concentration Camp
The Nazis Didn't Invent the Concentration Camp. They Refined a British Design. The general who built the camps…
■ Dark History
The Medieval Peasants Nearly Ended the English Monarchy
In 1381 English peasants marched on London, breached the Tower, and executed the Archbishop of Canterbury. The fourteen-year-old…
■ Dark History
The Empire That Controlled Half the World’s Opium
The British Empire fought two wars in the 1800s to protect its right to sell opium to China.…
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The Plague That Killed Half of Rome
Modern science has read those descriptions and cannot agree on what the disease was. Smallpox. Measles. Something with…
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Britain Had Too Many Poor Children. Australia Needed Labor
Between 1947 and 1970, Britain shipped approximately 130,000 children to Australia, Canada, and Rhodesia. They were told their…
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The Drug the U.S. Military Fed to Its Own Soldiers
The U.S. military issued mefloquine, a drug with documented psychosis and permanent brain damage as side effects, to…
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The Woman Who Discovered the Age of the Universe
The stars were always made of hydrogen. It just took a while for the men in charge to…
■ Dark History
Leningrad: The City That Voted For Others to Starve
Nearly one million civilians died during the Siege of Leningrad. The daily bread ration for children and the…
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The Slave Who Sued for His Freedom and Won
In 1772, an enslaved man named James Somerset took his case to the highest court in England. But…