While Ben Franklin was remarkably successful in keeping elements of his private life very private to the point that historians can only speculate about much of it, despite having a common law marriage, he was, shall we say, noted for his overt and unabashed love of women and their company, particularly if they were educated-… Read More »
Born in 1950, Richard Branson is a British business mogul and commercial astronaut. He made most of his wealth through his Virgin Group multinational venture capital conglomerate, which controls over 400 other companies in varying fields. In 2000, he was knighted for “services to entrepreneurship” at Buckingham Palace, cementing his place as one of the…… Read More »
In the pantheon of figures that dominated American History around the the time the traitors to the British crown cast off their Kingly shackles, Thomas Jefferson is perhaps one of the most prominent names remembered today, only equalled by the likes of scientist, philosopher, and statesman Ben Franklin and revolutionary General and later first President… Read More »
Babe Ruth is one of the greatest (if not the greatest) baseball players. He was so popular in the early-to-mid 1920s that it was often joked newspapers lacked sports sections; they had Babe Ruth segments where game scores and results happened to be mentioned. He was part of the Murderers’ Row, a New Yankees’ generation…… Read More »
Nazi Germany officially surrendered on May 7, 1945. With the war still raging in the Pacific against Japan and sporting a popularity rate at around 83%, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill seemed a shoe-in to maintain his position as Prime Minister of the British Empire. Just before the announcement of the results of the election,… Read More »
If you’ve spent any time on the interwebs there are three almost universal facts you’re going to come across. Nikola Tesla was a God among mortals, Thomas Edison was a patent thief charlatan who we only remember today because of how he stole other people’s ideas, including Tesla’s. And, third, X is a horrible renaming… Read More »
While just about everyone is abundantly familiar with Adolf Hitler’s exploits in the latter half of his life, an often missed part of the once proclaimed “German Messiah’s” history is that of his childhood. So just how did this “boy like any other” grow into arguably one of the most reviled individuals in the history… Read More »
It is impossible to talk about YouTubers without mentioning MrBeast; he is among the most influential on the platform and social media. In 2018, a rivalry between T-Series and PewDiePie, another social media heavyweight gaming account, MrBeast went above and beyond to ensure the latter won. Even though PewDiePie didn’t win, MrBeast had made a…… Read More »
