Abigail Williams was one of the first people "afflicted" during the Salem Witch Trials and one of the first to accuse others of witchcraft. Then she vanished.Abigail Williams was 12 years old when strange things began happening to her and her cousin, Betty Parris.
It was January 1692 and Williams was living with her uncle Samual Parris and his family in Salem Village, Massachusetts when she and Betty began having, “fits. Read More...
In 1898, French soldiers Paul Voulet and Julien Chanoine were sent to unify colonies in Africa. But they brutalized them instead.Wikimedia CommonsThe murder of Lt. Colonel Klobb is remembered as Capt. Paul Voulet’s ultimate act of insanity that alerted France to the dangers of its empire.
Across hundreds of square miles of the Sahara in the late 19th century, two bloodthirsty French officers, Paul Voulet and Julien Chanoine, unleashed one of the most gruesome campaigns of atrocities ever recorded in the history of colonialism. Read More...
From adventurer to author to activist, John Griffith London led a dramatic life in keeping with his celebrated novels like "White Fang" and "The Call of the Wild."Jack London was the kind of man who fully embodied the spirit of the time in which he lived — for better and for worse.
London lived the life of a rugged individualist starting at the age of just 14, embarking upon various adventures that would soon inspire his prolific writing career. Read More...
