Rick James worked, fought, and partied with almost every icon in the 70s and the 80s, and he kept taking it up a notch until it finally destroyed him.
Getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should’ve been incredible for Gregg Allman—instead, the night ended in utter humiliation.
Torrid affairs. Chilling secrets. Outrageous behavior. The lives of these rock gods are more twisted than any of their iconic songs.
Just days before their wedding, Karen Carpenter's fiance made a confession so brutal, it turned their romance into a horror story.
When Cliff Burton died in a bus crash, the driver said he hit black ice. But according to James Hetfield, there was no black ice on the road that night.
Few thinkers have been so widely quoted and so deeply misunderstood as Niccolo Machiavelli. For centuries, his name has been shorthand for political deceit—a man who supposedly preached that any act, however cruel, is justified if it leads to success based on the phrase “the ends justify the means”. But guess what, that phrase never appears in his manifesto, The Prince, at all. The idea was stitched to his reputation long after his death, and it turned a complex political analysis into a cartoon of villainy. If you’ve ever tossed that line around in debate or history class, the truth about where it comes from—and what Machiavelli really meant—might surprise you.
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