Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. October’s topic is… MONGOLIA UNDER BOGD KHAN: Two Revolutions for the Price of One When it comes to the Mongolian history, most people stop at the death of Genghis Khan
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Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. September’s topic is… UNITED STATES CAMEL CORPS EXPERIMENT: For A Few Camels More This is exactly what you think it is. There was a United States Army unit that
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Is The Thing meant to be the width of three people? Of all the problems with 20th Century FOX’s third attempt at a Fantastic Four, the following seems most demonstrative of everyone not understanding what the fuck they’re doing: The Thing’s catchphrase is given an origin, and not just any origin. His older brother yells
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Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. August’s topic is… MARGARET I: Scandinavian Overlord and Overlooked Woman When it comes to medieval monarchs, the typical names that always pop up are William the Conqueror, Eleanor of Aquitaine,
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In the Ant-Man movie out this week, the titular character faces off against Darren Cross in the guise of Yellowjacket. Yellowjacket is not a villain in comic books; instead, he is an identity of first Ant-Man Henry “Wifebeater” Pym, who bears little resemblance to cunnilingus expert Michael Douglas in the source material. The reasoning for
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