Author: Dr. Zar

A Brief History Legendary fighters Ken Shamrock (age 51) and Kimbo Slice (age 41) will battle inside the Bellator cage on Friday, June 19, 2015 in a historic match-up! Digging Deeper In one corner, we have Ken Shamrock, who, despite his age,  looks like an action figure.  A member of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Hall of Fame, Shamrock was the first ever UFC Superfight Champion.  He also had the longest fight in UFC history at 36 minutes.  In professional wrestling, he became the World Wrestling Federation’s Intercontinental Champion.  Of course most of his accomplishments are from the 1990s and…

A Brief History On May 23, 2006, Chooseco published an updated version of The Abominable Snowman as the first of their reissues of the Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks from the early 1980s so dear to this author’s heart. Digging Deeper Bantam Books published the original series from 1979 (the year of this author’s birth) to 1998.  As such, I grew up reading these books and still have most of them on shelves in my personal library.  If you have children aged 10 to 14, I strongly encourage you to share these volumes with them as a way of getting them…

A Brief History I would like to take this opportunity to explain a little bit about this site!  This site features history-related and sometimes bizarre articles and lists and current and otherwise entertaining headlines and topics for your amusement and education. Digging Deeper The site began in 2013 as a spin-off of TopTenz with Dr. Zar working as the site’s main writer.  Eventually, Dr. Zar’s dad (Major Dan) replaced Dr. Zar as the site’s main writer and the site’s original owner transferred ownership of the site to Dr. Zar.  The table below shows the various spin-offs of TopTenz over the…

A Brief History To take a step back from all the violent events we have recently covered, let us now celebrate some photographs taken by myself or family members in 2015 of wieners…well wiener dogs (Dachshunds), that is! Digging Deeper My mother took the above photograph of our Dachshund, Marie-Lousie, in February 2015 on a cold day in Ashland, Ohio. The above photograph was sent to my mother’s phone by my sister-in-law in March 2015. I took the above photograph at a gas station in Ashland, Ohio with my cellular phone in March 2015. This beautiful picture portrait taken in…

A Brief History Various types of alleged supernatural entities are believed to have plagued people in Western Civilization from Ancient to Modern times.  Western Civilization includes not only Europe, but also places colonized by Europeans, including, for example, North America.  To that end, we begin by examining the earliest examples of perceived supernatural beings, such as the Minotaur from Ancient Greece.  From there, we address the Medieval and Early modern witch hunts that terrorized mostly women as well as a smaller number of men in England, France, and Germany, and the English colony of Massachusetts.  We ultimately conclude by covering…