Cracked Archive - History
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
When fooling the world is your business, there isn't much room for mistakes. Or so you'd think.
- By Claire G.
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- July 18, 2010
Back in the day, people had only one reason to produce offspring: To force them to do the abhorrently awful work no grown person would dare to.
- By Shelby Fero
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- July 11, 2010
Unsurprisingly, our image of the past is largely made up of Hollywood inventions, propaganda and uneducated guesses.
- By Alexander L. Hoffman
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- July 06, 2010
Wwhat do you do if the real world doesn't provide you with something people can rally around? Just go ahead an embelish the truth.
- By Philip Moon
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- July 02, 2010
Thanks, Incest!
- By Robert Evans, Philip Moon
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- June 14, 2010
Here are five groups of soldiers that prove that no matter how implausible the plot, some military unit, somewhere, has topped it.
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- June 03, 2010
Prison escape stories are badass on their own. When you toss war into the mix, the stories seemingly become to insane to be true,
- By Paul K Pickett
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- May 31, 2010
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