Cracked Archive - History
5 True War Stories That Put Every Action Movie to Shame
Here are five groups of soldiers that prove that no matter how implausible the plot, some military unit, somewhere, has topped it.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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579 The 5 Most Badass Prison Escapes in the History of War
Prison escape stories are badass on their own. When you toss war into the mix, the stories seemingly become to insane to be true,
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- By Paul K Pickett
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7 Lost Bodies of Work (That Would Have Changed Everything)
Here are a few of the most influential works of art, literature and science in histor ...
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Lesser Known (Completely Ridiculous) American Civil Wars
Long before and after the Civil War, American states have been pointing guns at each other and screaming ridiculous threats. Just consider...
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- By Philip Moon
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The 5 Most Half Assed Apologies for Historic Crimes
We're almost positive that Ted Kaczynski's apology was more sincere than these.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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6 People You've Never Heard of Who Probably Saved Your Life
Hollywood, and to a certain extent history, likes to glorify those who were great a taking lives. Here are those that saved millions. And one that's friggin' Wolverine.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 7 Most Disastrous Typos Of All Time
We've all made typos. Fortunately, most of ours don't wind up changing world history. Not everyone is so lucky.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Supposedly Ancient Traditions (That Totally Aren't)
Patriotism, sex and money. People will use any reason to create a tradition. Especially the sex part.
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- By Robert Evans, CRACKED Staff
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The 6 Most Important Things Humanity Just Plain Forgot
Turns out some of the most amazing things ever discovered wound up lost or forgotten for centuries, for utterly ridiculous reasons.
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- By David Graham
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6 Mind-Blowing Achievements in Propaganda
When you think 'propaganda' you immediately picture a huge statue of a dictator, or banners stamped with corny slogans. You think of the kind of clumsy brainwashing that only works on uneducated peasants.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Shockingly Powerful Kids Who Make You Look Like a Coward
While we spent our childhoods using our boogers to glue our other boogers into super boogers, these youngsters spent theirs rocking the universe with their flagrant--and often chilling--displays of power.
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- By Kristi Harrison
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5 Ancient Acts of War That Changed the Face of the Earth
Some of the asskickings unleashed by ancient empires were so mind-boggling, the Earth still hasn't recovered.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Historic Figures Who Shaped The World (By Cheating Death)
The most amazing thing about history is how amazingly close things came to turning out differently. An inch here, a second there... that's the only difference between the world we live in now and an alternate universe where everything sucks quite a bit more than it does here.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Ridiculous History Myths (You Probably Think Are True)
Some of the things that we hear about people in the past, repeated again and again in cautionary tales about the present, simply aren't true. They were crazy, but they weren't THAT crazy.
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- By C. Coville
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The 6 Biggest Badasses Who Lived As The Opposite Sex
These people lived their entire lives as the oppossite sex, mostly because the people around them were complete idiots.
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- By Christina H
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