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Larry McGowan, Cincinnati’s ‘Napoleon’ Of Doomed Hulbert Park

“It is the opinion of the interviewer that if once in a while Larry is given a first-class spanking he will make a first-class man.”

When Oscar Wilde Visited Cincinnati, Everybody Freaked Out About It

Follow the “youthful priest of the beautiful” around 11 Cincinnati locations.

The Infamous Julius Gumpertz & His Cincinnati Afterlife

No one knows much about Julius Gumpertz, one of the more colorful characters of NYC's Tenement Museum. But we do know that in 1885, the year a court declared him legally dead, he appeared in Cincinnati.

Bolly Lewis: A Cincinnati Gambler With A Heart Of Gold

“Gambler or boniface, he was always a man of his word."

Henry Traber’s Impossibly Surviving Trilobite

It is generally accepted that trilobites went extinct at the end of the Permian Period, around 250 million years ago.

Abraham Lincoln Favored A Cincinnati Quack

In the fall of 1862, President Abraham Lincoln received a most unusual one-sentence letter from a Cincinnatian named Samuel W. Forsha.

Two Sly Cincinnati Landlords Foiled by Spunky Shopkeeper

Do not mess with Barbara Siebert.

Watch This Florida Candy Shop Use a Vintage Machine from Cincinnati to Make Old-Timey...

We were pretty pumped when we heard this Florida company name-drop Cincinnati in their now-widely-shared video, which shows them demonstrating candy-making on their refurbished candy machine.

Doctor Duncan’s Hat & The Cincinnati Catholic “Riot”

Did the Catholics of Cincinnati really riot in 1834?

The Curious History Of A Little Third Street Room: Lawyers, Gamblers, Bootleggers, & Artists

It was just one little Cincinnati room, but it saw a lot of history.

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