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Kaleena Fraga

A staff writer for All That's Interesting, Kaleena Fraga has also had her work featured in The Washington Post and Gastro Obscura, and she published a book on the Seattle food scene for the Eat Like A Local series. She graduated from Oberlin College, where she earned a dual degree in American History and French.

Recent Posts

Inside The Historic Moment When Martin Luther King And Malcolm X Met For The First And Only Time

Inside The Historic Moment When Martin Luther King And Malcolm X Met For The First And Only Time

On March 26, 1964, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. met on Capitol Hill and discussed working together in the future — but within a year, one of them was dead.

Meet Paul Grüninger, The Forgotten WW2 Hero Who Defied Orders To Save Thousands Of Jews

Meet Paul Grüninger, The Forgotten WW2 Hero Who Defied Orders To Save Thousands Of Jews

From 1938 to 1939, Swiss border commander Paul Grüninger falsified 3,600 Jewish refugees' passports, helping them escape the Holocaust.

The Story Of Catherine Howard, Henry VIII’s Other Beheaded Wife

The Story Of Catherine Howard, Henry VIII’s Other Beheaded Wife

Catherine Howard was just a teenager when she married the middle-aged King Henry VIII in 1540 — and she was decapitated on his orders just two years later.

Inside Templo Mayor, The Mythic Aztec Temple Of Skulls That Terrified The Spanish Conquistadors

Inside Templo Mayor, The Mythic Aztec Temple Of Skulls That Terrified The Spanish Conquistadors

Experts weren't sure whether to believe Hernán Cortés' reports of an Aztec temple with a wall featuring 130,000 human skulls — until a 2017 excavation revealed the chilling truth.

How Scores Of Abolitionists Risked Their Lives To Free 100,000 Slaves On The Underground Railroad

How Scores Of Abolitionists Risked Their Lives To Free 100,000 Slaves On The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a railroad — but it did fight the system of slavery by secretly shepherding slaves to freedom in the North.

Leno And Rosemary LaBianca: The Couple Brutally Murdered By The Manson Family

Leno And Rosemary LaBianca: The Couple Brutally Murdered By The Manson Family

The night after murdering Sharon Tate and her friends, the Manson Family stabbed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca to death.

Meet The Entelodont, The Horse-Sized “Hell Pig” Whose Teeth Were As Thick As A Human Wrist

Meet The Entelodont, The Horse-Sized “Hell Pig” Whose Teeth Were As Thick As A Human Wrist

Weighing in at 2,000 pounds and sporting arm-sized fangs, the entelodont earned its status as the "hell pig" of prehistoric North America.

The Hidden History Of The Abraham Lincoln Assassination

The Hidden History Of The Abraham Lincoln Assassination

Discover why the wider Abraham Lincoln assassination plot was far larger than the death of one man and how this three-pronged attack sent out violent aftershocks for decades to come.

The History Of Zealandia, Earth’s Little-Known 8th Continent Beneath The South Pacific Ocean

The History Of Zealandia, Earth’s Little-Known 8th Continent Beneath The South Pacific Ocean

Today, New Zealand is all that remains of the lost continent of Zealandia — but 30 million years ago, it was a verdant landscape filled with volcanoes and teeming with life.

Who The Sea Peoples Were And How They Devastated The Ancient World

Who The Sea Peoples Were And How They Devastated The Ancient World

The Sea Peoples terrorized Egypt and the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age, but their identity and origins remain mysterious to this day.

Nurse Edith Cavell Saved The Lives Of Soldiers On Both Sides During World War I — Until She Was Executed

Nurse Edith Cavell Saved The Lives Of Soldiers On Both Sides During World War I — Until She Was Executed

On October 12, 1915, British nurse Edith Cavell was killed by a German firing squad for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape German-occupied Belgium.