The crazy way the Royal Navy killed Blackbeard the pirate
Edward Teach was only a notorious pirate for two years, but in that time, he made a reputation for himself that lives on to this day. Aboard his flagship, Queen…
What is known about Blackbeard’s (still) buried treasure
There is no doubt that the most well-known and infamous pirate of all time is Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard. He terrorized the Caribbean for years before his eventual death in 1718. Three hundred years later, his massive, hidden fortune i…
7 people in military history who were the hardest to kill
When Prince Felix Yussupov went to murder Russia’s “mad monk” and advisor to the last Tsar, he wanted to make sure the job was done. He wrote that he had poisoned Rasputin’s wine with cyanide. When that didn’t do the trick, he then shot the mon…