The Former Bouncer Who Might Be The Smartest Person In The World, The Most Astonishing History News Of 2021, And More From History Uncovered

[History Uncovered]( [Meet The College Dropout And Former Bouncer Who Just Might Be The Smartest Person In The World]( [A college dropout who’s worked as a bouncer and horse rancher, Christopher Langan taught himself everything from Latin to physics to advanced mathematics.]( [Stephen Hawking's Wife Was His Devoted Caregiver — Until He Left Her For His Nurse]( [In 1963, 19-year-old Jane Wilde was told that her boyfriend Stephen Hawking had just three years to live. But in 1965, the two got married — and embarked on a 30-year marriage.]( [Meet The WWII Resistance Fighter Who Taunted The Nazis Even As They Were Trying To Kill Her]( [Known among the Nazis as "the girl with the red hair," Hannie Schaft was so deadly that Adolf Hitler personally ordered her capture.]( [15 Astonishing History News Stories From 2021 That Illuminated The Past Like Never Before]( [In October, scientists in Canada analyzed several wooden artifacts and determined the exact date when the Vikings first arrived in North America — and it's 500 years before Christopher Columbus set sail.]( [Inside The Vigilante Killing Of Jeff Doucet, The Pedophile Shot By His Victim's Father]( [Jeff Doucet expected to face justice in a courtroom, but Gary Plauché had other plans.]( [This 2,700-Year-Old Toilet Just Proved That Intestinal Parasites Made Life Hell For Biblical Kings]( [Archaeologists found eggs from a variety of parasites in the sediment inside the ancient Jerusalem commode.]( [Inside The Life Of Buck Barrow, Clyde Barrow's Gangster Older Brother]( [In 1933, Buck Barrow joined up with Bonnie and Clyde's gang during some of the most infamous days of their crime spree.]( [How An Ordinary English Woman Convinced An Entire Town She Was A Pacific Island Princess]( [In 1817, Mary Baker of England donned a turban and started talking in a nonsense language — and convinced the whole town of Almondsbury that she was “Princess Caraboo” from the made-up island of “Javasu.”]( [Black Sharecroppers In Arkansas Fought For Better Wages In 1919 — Until A White Mob Massacred Them]( [On the night of September 30, 1919, about 100 Black sharecroppers gathered in a church in Elaine, Arkansas to organize for better wages. Before long, a group of white men gathered outside, attempted to spy on the meeting, and then fired shots into the church — sparking a bloody massacre that would lead to the deaths of hundreds of Black people and five whites.]( [The Tragic Story Of Willie Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's Son Who Died Inside The White House At Just 11]( [William Wallace Lincoln is the youngest person and the only presidential child to have died in the White House.]( [He Was The Most Famous Aviator On Earth — And Then His Nazi Sympathies Were Revealed]( [At age 25, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly nonstop from New York to Paris. The next 50 years were a bumpy ride.]( [How An Enslaved Blacksmith Almost Pulled Off America's First Post-Independence Slave Rebellion]( [Gabriel Prosser was born in 1776 near Richmond and grew up hearing white Virginians speak of freedom, so he decided to plan the largest slave rebellion the state had ever seen.]( [Unsubscribe]( [Update Subscription]( [History Uncovered On Instagram]( [History Uncovered On Facebook](