<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 10:24:03 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/cmih/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Stalin the practical joker, and how it got him killed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joesph Stalin infamous leader of the Soviet Union is well known as a despotic dictator but a lesser known fact is that he enjoyed practical jokes. And as you might guess they were not all that nice. The]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-148441/@fiveboringgames/stalin-the-practical-joker-and-how-it-got-him-killed</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-148441/@fiveboringgames/stalin-the-practical-joker-and-how-it-got-him-killed</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-148441]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[fiveboringgames]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2020 13:10:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/99pyU5Ga1kwqSXWA2c56scjxrZ5UkyoW72Gt654VNTN4i8qiQARYxW1n1Bs7gZVDxTCMSsfZWfsX9GoiooJtyM1o5BHCLmVHP4vxQGLkMfjNsAa9CMR1a16PPEC7Qckrhk?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cool moments from History: How carrots helped defeat the Nazis.]]></title><description><![CDATA[We have all heard it said that carrots improve your eyesight, what if I told you they don't? And what if I told you the story was made up to help defeat the Nazis? Interested? Well read on. source Radar]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-133974/@fiveboringgames/2aazwu-cool-moments-from-history-how-carrots-helped-defeat-the-nazis</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-133974/@fiveboringgames/2aazwu-cool-moments-from-history-how-carrots-helped-defeat-the-nazis</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-133974]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[fiveboringgames]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2020 06:16:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/3HaJVvr6qfmtP57onrD5DoXPDpJxm3PKS6xs8RGRwhPEc2egCJwQmqw3y5hbXYLbm1LXNWVWYcCYC5HTBSXxDQUD6bzd3PGhkqdk2M4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cool Moments in History: The first person to circumnavigate the world (not Magellan)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Magellan's Expedition While Magellan deserves quite a lot of credit for the first circumnavigation of the globe he was most certainly not the first person to do it. The main reason we know this? He died]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-in-history-the-first-person-to-circumnavigate-the-world-not-magellan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-in-history-the-first-person-to-circumnavigate-the-world-not-magellan</guid><category><![CDATA[history]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[fiveboringgames]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2018 09:53:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXZyPcVtTtTAYzWsNdyPDgkmzUaRqBxUAxrpNMBPh1LHd1eHL83Yyy9V15XWskBLN24rwz3t3ayL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cool moments from History: How carrots helped defeat the Nazis.]]></title><description><![CDATA[We have all heard it said that carrots improve your eyesight, what if I told you they don't? And what if I told you the story was made up to help defeat the Nazis? Interested? Well read on. source Radar]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-from-history-how-carrots-helped-defeat-the-nazis</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-from-history-how-carrots-helped-defeat-the-nazis</guid><category><![CDATA[history]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[fiveboringgames]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:48:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/3HaJVvr6qfmtP57onrD5DoXPDpJxm3PKS6xs8RGRwhPEc2egCJwQmqw3y5hbXYLbm1LXNWVWYcCYC5HTBSXxDQUD6bzd3PGhkqdk2M4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cool Moments in History: Stalin the practical joker, and how it got him killed (Repost Friday)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joesph Stalin the leader of the Soviet Union is well known as a despotic dictator but a lesser known fact is that he enjoyed practical jokes. And as you might have guessed they were not very nice. source]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-in-history-stalin-the-practical-joker-and-how-it-got-him-killed-repost-friday</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-in-history-stalin-the-practical-joker-and-how-it-got-him-killed-repost-friday</guid><category><![CDATA[history]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[fiveboringgames]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2017 12:30:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/gPCasciUWmF6WMEbx5zYK5supyWyARGhXrhb7hmYzSVcSsJJN44BNuCpgX1Yf1ejJe93ReagSAMnLDpgZTyGYuF9WSNGSaA9uwrMjXWufJukFZDi1ufgs9QUyZXgEy7EnRFULZkEUwTvHVMJ9L?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cool Moments in History: Surviving the sinking of the Titanic by getting drunk]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is the story of Charles Joughin who was the chief baker on the Titanic when it hit an iceberg on the 14th of April 1912. source The Titanic's final plunge Duty and Drink When it became clear that]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-in-history-surviving-the-sinking-of-the-titanic-by-getting-drunk</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-in-history-surviving-the-sinking-of-the-titanic-by-getting-drunk</guid><category><![CDATA[history]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[fiveboringgames]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:57:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/k75bsZMwYNuAjEYBiJy8C1yFbhebnLfxaNuC6yCr3wdmHpaatTrZCWwQNm8FZeZouFhEVF1CYha3SoRfg9S4UWv5xYT4ZQumnDUsZgnk4SVwTSop3KtF1mbuDJb34sF3tdDgHbHiVT9Do3rAQ5Pmif9Aq3pvqdRRQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[After 2 months of being MIA I am coming back with more 'Cool Moments in History']]></title><description><![CDATA[I was going to title this post 'after nearly a month MIA', but then I checked my post history and I am truly shocked to see I haven't posted in 2 months. It has been a strange time for me in real life,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@fiveboringgames/after-2-months-of-being-mia-i-am-coming-back-with-more-cool-moments-in-history</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@fiveboringgames/after-2-months-of-being-mia-i-am-coming-back-with-more-cool-moments-in-history</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[fiveboringgames]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:40:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2YRZBi4FZVHeLuau3m8MumiUXfA7eZTW31v33oUtB9pXeiLC4dyzB58xtXMk6jZZZ5UAaQCVtVgsPnU69ypsZjvu3Yi5HJupQXg?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cool Moments in History: The Great Escapes of East Berlin]]></title><description><![CDATA[A few of my favourite escape stories from the cold war. A Windy Ride When Austrian Heinz Meixner was working in East Berlin, he fell in love, but heartbreakingly they could not get permission, to marry,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-in-history-the-great-escapes-of-east-berlin</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-in-history-the-great-escapes-of-east-berlin</guid><category><![CDATA[history]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[fiveboringgames]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2017 11:47:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2FFvz9vxu46eAUF8NWd2aTiyg9tLKMZGwTNE9SVaJy1C5gN9LAjN2rF3EvPnFzZLHg3XD6v6mc8hBq5FKizNRWUJTDakGmVP3ce8cuLEaaYUYzJCYQyWHX2Z14bJE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cool Moments in History: The last Samurai visit America in 1860]]></title><description><![CDATA[No Tom Cruise I am afraid, this is the story of a group of 76 Samurai that went on a diplomatic tour to America in 1860. Two things that made this particularly interesting was: Japan was just beginning]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-in-history-the-last-samurai-visit-america-in-1860</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-in-history-the-last-samurai-visit-america-in-1860</guid><category><![CDATA[history]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[fiveboringgames]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2017 15:13:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/5ShzsKnKF7vqrac7HjBVjjsTMhcD6TRfwrY8PVQQfAEAPGQNFNwUwgLKgmv2daFTrTxCbqxgUCT1XwFHCcEL4iSdbqrYRYs8zmfUvP1nrKXxgtNPYc7HBUn8gjKdncSQ6JvCPH38CaV4LoLzWLR612y4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cool Moments in History: The march that finally defeated Napoleon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waterloo, one of the most famous battles in history, ending Napoleon's dramatic return to power. The Emperor himself commanding the french forces and the Duke of Wellington commanding the British with]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-in-history-the-march-that-finally-defeated-napoleon</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-in-history-the-march-that-finally-defeated-napoleon</guid><category><![CDATA[history]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[fiveboringgames]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:07:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4vvCdfUkb2VQhySyiSHwEK2LdKBVUMRuTE3cHWSyEC9rKfW8H4kQUaKS4Ekf6SmMpi7KNBP19XvbQguMzMbMm87QW9kvdBjrDZgBFd4QCjvp4zx6Sw2aDNqq3C4Jd3A9Jz6MkBiLMpXTuMkGQ259FQe9WE2ThdoKQiFPf229V42GqdfYCjogCgNbtg3M52eB8?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cool Moments in History: How tanks got their name]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why is a tank called a tank?? Well that's what they're called, right!?!? The need for tanks With the advent of the machine gun we saw the death, quite literally, of cavalry. This first became clear in]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-in-history-how-tanks-got-their-name</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-in-history-how-tanks-got-their-name</guid><category><![CDATA[history]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[fiveboringgames]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 16:05:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/MvwLKy3SfvJwXFKCRMDAFrt961TUwgaHMwazEHfgA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cool Moments in History: Genghis Khan, from rags, to slavery, to ruler of the world]]></title><description><![CDATA[Firstly I'd like to say that Genghis Khan is one of the most hated figure in history, and rightly so it is estimated that his wars led to the deaths of about 10% of the world's population, while the title]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-in-history-genghis-khan-from-rags-to-slavery-to-ruler-of-the-world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/history/@fiveboringgames/cool-moments-in-history-genghis-khan-from-rags-to-slavery-to-ruler-of-the-world</guid><category><![CDATA[history]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[fiveboringgames]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:53:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/FxX5caie56ynMuadCn1QV74TFBJ4dhAkvfmnAiCuCBqjmFwGy7rvENV5KR4jmx2htBVbCHffw3npK8gaBqH8vcebTHeNWmgXdSmjs3YRjmwC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>