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Bookmark or Share- 5 times Alexander was not so Great | All About HistoryAlexander was served by many pages, one of whom, Hermolaus, killed a boar that was marked for Alexander. Publicly flogged, Hermolaus was humiliated. He, along with his lover and several others, conspired to kill the king while he slept. But Alexander spent the night drinking and failed to return. The plan revealed, the boys were stoned to death ...
- Papa Doc Duvalier: The Voodoo President who killed KennedyFrançois Duvalier and his wife Simone in 1957. One story recounted in Haiti: Past, Present, Future by Timothy DeTellis involves Duvalier travelling to Trou Forban, a cave believed since the time of the French plantations to be the home of powerful evil spirits. In this tall tale Duvalier and a loyal houngan held a ceremony that invited these ...
- 10 Warrior Queens From Africa, Ancient Greece, Central Asia and BeyondHere are ten warrior queens from history who showed that a woman’s place can be on the front lines. ‘A spartan woman giving a shield to her son’ by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier, 1826. Arachidamia most definitely did not conform to type…. 10. Arachidamia, Queen of Sparta.
- The Red Archduchess: The Hapsburg heir who murdered an actress & defied ...The only child of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria was an incredibly strong-willed – and unpredictable – woman, yet her life plays out like a microcosm for the tides of radical change that washed across Central Europe in the first half of the 20th Century.
- The nearly botched assassination of Franz FerdinandThe assassination of Franz Ferdinand is known universally as the central event that kick started World War I. Those two bullets fired on a sunny June morning in 1914 catapulted the world into a power struggle that would continue into the Cold War. However, perhaps the most remarkable thing about this assassination is that it very nearly didn ...
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