Category: History Lessons

It wasn’t so long ago that this bewitching American continent became the fickle mistress of horny European explorers. Today, the bastard love children who resulted from those filthy acts have created the planet’s most decadent lifestyle and most feared international police force.

K Composite’s History of the United States series magnifies the intrigue of single events – or the sexy exploits of individuals – and delivers them to today’s savvy modern audience in a format from which everyone can learn something: An indignant, biased, revisionist essay permeated with infelicitous innuendo and seductive phraseology.

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26 April 2018

Frances Folsom married the president. Nice!

In 1886, Frances Folsom married President Grover Cleveland at a White House ceremony. It was the only time a sitting president has been wed while in office.
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11 August 2016

The Voyagers: A Short Film About Earth’s Greatest Hits

In the process of compiling golden records to be sent into deep space, Carl Sagan and the project's creative director Ann Druyan fell in love.
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1 August 2015

William Henry Harrison was barely the President of the United States

If there were ever to be a movie made about the presidency of William Henry Harrison, the two biggest dilemmas in the production would be:..
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1 August 2015

James Irwin was the Eighth Man to Walk on the Moon

The amorous tale of America's sexiest astronaut and the wicked web of seduction and scandal that surrounded his secret life
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1 August 2014

Spiro T. Agnew: The Original Old Dirty Bastard

When Agnew died at age 77, a newspaper story in his home state of Maryland remarked, “There are many who remember him, but not very fondly.”
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6 January 1999

Tim Berners Lee

Some British dude who lives in Massachusetts invented the World Wide Web in Switzerland in 1990.