Cracked Archive - History

Every once in a while, reality does a sick kick-flip and gives us a crime story worthy of a cartoon.

• By Amanda Mannen
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• April 14, 2021

Propelling warfare into the future one bad sci-fi plot at a time.

• By Cedric Voets
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• April 13, 2021

Many have never even heard about the reign of the United States' first and only monarch ...

• By Ethan Tyrrell
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• April 07, 2021

Are the Pinkertons who 'Red Dead Redemption' makes them out to be?

• By Justin McGown
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• April 07, 2021

Three red-light districts were established around the country, with Yoshiwara -- located in Edo (old-timey Tokyo) -- being the absolutely wildest of them all …

• By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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• April 06, 2021

A lot of things happened in 1776, including the origin story of the America's (probably) first nonbinary doomsday prophet.

• By Ryan Menezes
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• April 05, 2021

It might very well be the most expensive physical manifestation of 'What now, bro?'

• By Amanda Mannen
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• April 04, 2021

Imagine your most annoying co-worker, but four times worse. Boom, now you're imagining Galileo.

• By Mark Hill
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• April 02, 2021

Hold on to your ... you know what.

• By Charles Smith
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• April 01, 2021

Angry and stupid is never a winning combination.

• By Nathan Williams
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• March 30, 2021

Honestly, more violent riots should incorporate unnecessary theater.

• By Amanda Mannen
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• March 27, 2021

Dr. Mary Walker path to the history books began with a pair of pants.

• By Philip Yiannopoulos
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• March 24, 2021

Please don't replace meals with smoking.

• By Mac Faber
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• March 22, 2021

They assumed no one would notice, and if they did, they definitely wouldn't vote for a woman ...

• By Amanda Mannen
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• March 21, 2021

Best-case scenario, those guys definitely ate vulture vomit; worse-case, it was cannibalistic vulture vomit.

• By Amanda Mannen
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• March 20, 2021