5 Weird Stories From the History of Embalming
From Nation, For Nation - Pulse of the Nation
Grieving the James family way.
Zerelda James
A crook only a mother could love, Jesse James was born in Clay County, Missouri, on September 5, 1847, to Robert and Zerelda James. Zerelda had her hands full with Jesse and his older brother Frank, among other siblings. This was a case of motherly love…taken to the grave!
When the Civil War called, young Jesse watched Frank march off to fight for the rebellion →
The work of the devil or a mathematician?
The Devil's Game: Roulette
Perhaps one day, while gambling away your children’s inheritance in some nameless casino someone told you that Roulette was invented by Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and Catholic theologian who lived →
From Globe, For Globe - Pulse of the Planet
Many of the project's activities were illegal.
MKUltra
Inspiring hundreds of TV shows, movies, and conspiracy theories, the secret CIA project-codenamed MKUltra-is a story of government black ops, drugs, cover-ups, and murder.
Buried beneath divisions and sub-groups in the CIA, MKUltra began as early as 1950, but wasn’t official until 1953, technically falling under the US Army Chemical Corps. Motivated to combat the Soviet “truth serum,” its purpose was to develop techniques and drugs for mind c →
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