Cracked Archive - History

Get a cone of ice-cold steel.

• By Cedric Voets
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• October 30, 2020

This was regarded as the 'more precise and humane option.'

• By Amanda Mannen
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• October 29, 2020

Sometimes Death gets bored and creative.

• By Christian Markle
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• October 29, 2020

• By Mark Hill
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• October 28, 2020

Be prepared (to garrot enemy infiltrators)

• By Cedric Voets
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• October 27, 2020

These people grew strong, and they learned how to get along.

• By Ryan Menezes
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• October 26, 2020

Nowadays we're not going to fawn over any president's words like we used to.

• By Ryan Menezes
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• October 26, 2020

Hundreds of years ago, it was a game you played to flirt with your target, like pub trivia today.

• By Amanda Mannen
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• October 25, 2020

5 Stars -- the Moscow police.

• By Cedric Voets
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• October 23, 2020

Over a hundred men died, and it all happened because one Sir John Franklin just couldn't stop pitching a tent for an unbelievably bad idea ...

• By Mac Faber
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• October 21, 2020

The royal line of Ouch.

• By Cedric Voets
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• October 20, 2020

Please, sir, can I have some more arsenic?

• By Cedric Voets
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• October 18, 2020

Wright’s heart was in the right place, but his head was probably distracted by some stained glass.

• By Amanda Mannen
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• October 17, 2020

The Roman calendar wasn't made in a day -- or in a normal year.

• By Cedric Voets
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• October 13, 2020

Today is the day we'll all look at a guy wearing a pufferfish as a helmet.

• By Alex Hanton
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• October 12, 2020