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These summarial descriptions, as well as summaries of the outcomes of these conspiracies, can be found at Cracked.com.

#7 - In 1933, group of wealthy businessmen that allegedly included the heads of Chase Bank, GM, Goodyear, Standard Oil, the DuPont family and Senator Prescott Bush tried to recruit Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to lead a military coup against President FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in the United States. And yes, we’re talking about the same Prescott Bush who fathered one US President and grandfathered another one.

#6 - Near the end of WWII, things were rapidly going south for Germany and the time seemed ripe for guilt-ridden Nazi officers to assassinate Hitler and overthrow his government. Colonel Henning von Tresckow recruited Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to join the conspiracy in 1944.
The plot to take out Hitler and then all of his loyal officers was called Operation Valkyrie, based on the belief that no plan can fail if it has a cool enough name.
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…or maybe the most bizarre cute flash video I’ve ever seen. You decide.
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Clearing out my favorites list today here at the Drunken Pumpkin corporate headquarters and wanted to share some items that tickled me when I ran across them but for some reason never made it onto the website.

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