HAistoric — Histories That Almost Were

— A single typo, a mountain of cash, and the one thing Marie Antoinette was good at: spending. —

— Delphic Oracle Accidentally Invents Zoning Laws, Dooms Future Conquests With Prophecy About Foundations —

— How a Water Shortage and One Thieving Senator Accidentally Invented Slapstick —

— How a profoundly petty Mossad mission in 1988 accidentally uncovered Muammar Gaddafi’s plan to outsource his chemical weapons program to a bunch of pissed-off Irishmen. —

— That Time the Dutch Decided God Hated Cream and Immediately Regretted It —

— How One Scribe’s Shitty Handwriting Accidentally Invented Bureaucracy —

— How One Asylum Director Tried to Cure Hysteria with Off-Key Verdi, and Mostly Just Invented Noise Pollution —

— How a Lost Shipment of English Neckwear Nearly Decapitated the Ottoman Empire —

— How a Stolen Satchel of Bad Verse Accidentally Sent the Cold War to Venus —

— How One Sleep-Deprived Botanist and a Smudge of Ink Convinced Half of Sweden Their New Gods Were Carnivorous Vegetables —

— HOW A CLERICAL ERROR IN WHITEHALL ACCIDENTALLY GAVE SOMALIA THE WORLD’S 7TH LARGEST NUCLEAR SUBMARINE FLEET —

— How One Really, Truly Shit Translation Convinced a Persian King the Sky Was a Bathtub —

— How a bunch of pissed-off gladiators accidentally invented musical theatre and ruined disembowelment for everyone. —

— Sometimes, when you try to blow up a rocket scientist in a jungle, you just end up paying for someone else’s space program. It happens. —

— How One Ruminant's Snackcident Lobotomized the Entire Western Canon —