Cracked Archive - History
Here are a few of the most influential works of art, literature and science in histor ...
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- May 19, 2010
Long before and after the Civil War, American states have been pointing guns at each other and screaming ridiculous threats. Just consider...
- By Philip Moon
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- May 16, 2010
We're almost positive that Ted Kaczynski's apology was more sincere than these.
- By Kathy Benjamin
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- May 12, 2010
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.
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- May 04, 2010
We've all made typos. Fortunately, most of ours don't wind up changing world history. Not everyone is so lucky.
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- May 03, 2010
Patriotism, sex and money. People will use any reason to create a tradition. Especially the sex part.
- By Robert Evans, CRACKED Staff
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- April 28, 2010
Turns out some of the most amazing things ever discovered wound up lost or forgotten for centuries, for utterly ridiculous reasons.
- By David Graham
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- April 26, 2010
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.
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- April 21, 2010
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.
- By Kristi Harrison
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- April 20, 2010
Some of the asskickings unleashed by ancient empires were so mind-boggling, the Earth still hasn't recovered.
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- April 15, 2010
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.
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- April 13, 2010
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.
- By C. Coville
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- April 05, 2010
These people lived their entire lives as the oppossite sex, mostly because the people around them were complete idiots.
- By Christina H
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- March 27, 2010
The modern world as we know it was shaped by the minds of geniuses. But the same outside the box thinking that gave us our great innovations also gave them some truly ridiculous ideas.
- By Cole Gamble
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- March 26, 2010
Propaganda is invaluable at teaching two timeless lessons: Your government thinks you're stupid, and when faced with unreasonable expectations, some people will lose their shit in hilarious ways.
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- March 24, 2010
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