Cracked Archive - History
We continue our crusade to convince the world that all of the most important events in history turned on some kind of ridiculous accident.
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- November 17, 2010
If you've ever wondered if you could win a war by using reptiles instead of bullets and using the power of rock 'n' roll, then you're in good company.
- By Phillip Parsons
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- November 14, 2010
The mind-bogglingly shitty jobs people have gotten stuck with during wartime.
- By Joshua Sherman
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- November 07, 2010
As a predominantly Christian people, Westerners think they know the Bible pretty well. But not everybody realizes that many of the most iconic features of Christianity were never mentioned by the holy book or the church, but were actually pulled out of the ass of some poet or artist who wanted to make a few bucks out of it.
- By Bjorn Karhunen, Jacopo della Quercia
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- October 19, 2010
The kind of coincidences you'd dismiss as bad writing if seen in a movie happen all of the time in real life.
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- October 11, 2010
Real-world battles are rarely won by the ragtag team of underdogs. Tanks beat horses, guns beat spears. Though sometimes, the ewoks really do kick ass.
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- October 08, 2010
We're impressed by new gizmos, sure, but we tend to forget that even the most obvious, basic concepts had to be invented at some point. And some of them were shockingly recent.
- By Eric Yosomono
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- October 06, 2010
Murder is no joke. Failed assassination attempts are.
- By Jim Avery
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- October 01, 2010
Forget about Stephanie Meyer or JK Rowling or Stephen King--at the end of the day, they just write stories and make billions of dollars. No, the writers who really deserve a pat on the back are the ones who wrote completely fictional stories that, over time, were remembered as actual history.
- By Kathy Benjamin
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- September 09, 2010
You can't deny that armed conflicts gave us some pretty good things, such as major advances in everything from rockets to microwave ovens. Oh, and this stuff.
- By Jack Mendoza
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- August 24, 2010
Cracked: Finding dicks in academia since 1956.
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- August 23, 2010
One thing you should never underestimate is mankind's ability to come up with cool-ass ways to kill each other.
- By Colin Murdock
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- August 15, 2010
Why did the Empire spend all that time and money building the Death Star, only to leave that vulnerable exhaust port wide open? That question marks the end of your naive childhood and the beginning of your life as a cynical adult.
- By Phillip Parsons
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- August 08, 2010
Once again, the nutbags that are our ancestors beat us to the punch.
- By CRACKED Staff, Sam Blitz
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- July 28, 2010
Apparently some of the most important changes in pop culture and world history have turned on some guy shrugging and saying, 'screw it.'
- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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- July 20, 2010
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