Top Ten Greatest Epitaphs
The epitaph is the last word many put out into the world, and is the way that for centuries many have summed up their life, or death, in just a few short words. In some instances, the best epitaphs are written by those who knew the deceased well, and with [...]
Top 10 Most Inspiring Revolutions
Oxford Dictionary defines the word revolution as a ‘forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system”, with this in mind- it should be largely unsurprising to learn that our planet has staged its fair share of revolutions during our time inhabiting it, with the toppling of [...]
Top Ten Strange Things You Probably Don’t Know About American History
America is the land of the free and the home of the brave, but it is also a country with a quirky past. Much of America’s history is riddled with oddities and the following are no exception. Here are ten strange things you probably didn’t know about American history. 10. Washington [...]
Top 10 Insane Monarchs and Rulers
It is perhaps more common than you’d think for the members of ruling class royal families to go completely insane. History, in particular that attributed to European nations, is packed full of examples, and this list intends to showcase some of the most utterly troubled of those. There are many [...]
Top Ten Weird Facts About American Presidents
The President of The United States is a prolific job that is wrought with its own stress, complexities and danger. Presidents deal with such massively important decisions and are so prevalent on television and the media in general that it is sometimes difficult to see them as regular people. Presidents [...]
Top 10 Books Written by Notable Musicians
Now and then, an artist of particularly notability will make a transition in their field, jumping from one art form to another. Though this is relatively rare, it is getting less so- and whether it be painters trying their hand at music or a ballet dancer venturing into the world [...]
Top Ten Theories of Edgar Allan Poe’s Death
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most respected and influential writers in the history of people wearing out of date clothes and talking about how dreadful life is. He is also one of the most world famous cases of ‘no-one-knows-what-the-heck-happened-to-him’ in history. While having written countless works that would [...]
Top 10 Most Watched Sporting Competitions
Sport is an integral part of human identity, the need to compete with one another stems right back to the earlier days- when rivalries would be settled usually with intensely violent physical confrontation. Whilst that unfortunately still goes on, we now have sport as well with which to outdo one [...]
Top 10 Brutal Torture Methods
For millennia, torture has been used by humankind in order to meet various ends. Whether as punishment for a crime, for the extraction of information or as part of an execution- we’ve become devilishly good at devising ways of inflicting unthinkable misery upon each other. Here’s a look at some [...]
Top 10 Strange Medical Conditions
Human beings may be one of the few species on the planet with the gift of self-consciousness; however this defends our plain biological constitution from the plague of illness in very few ways. Over our long history, epidemics have come and gone, some causing absolute devastation and others mere confusion. [...]
