The rat that was executed for murder!
Tsar Peter III of Russia is remembered as the man who executed a rat for murder – well, chewing the head off one of his toy soldiers
Tsar Peter III of Russia is remembered as the man who executed a rat for murder – well, chewing the head off one of his toy soldiers
The emperor Caligula made his favourite horse Incitatus a Roman senator but was it an act of madness or a political statement?
The shortest war in history was between the British Empire and the sultanate of Zanzibar lasting just 40 minutes
Mary Toft was a woman who claimed to have given birth to rabbits so how did she fool so many people in 18th century England?