The Middle Ages saw the rise of some truly nightmarish tools of battle. These Medieval weapons weren’t just about winning battles—they were about sending a message.
You know when someone squints at a floppy disk or asks what a Walkman is? That's when you start giving lectures that begin with, “Back in the day, we would use this for…
Rosemary Kennedy suffered brain damage during birth. Later, she received a lobotomy which failed and left her incapacitated for the rest of her life.
Every sports fan knows the escalating intensity of watching a game go down to the wire, especially if it runs longer than expected. However, as those present on one unfortunate night in the 1980s discovered, the tension only goes so far. This is the story of the longest professional baseball game.
Sergeant Alvin York became a national hero after he won a shocking underdog victory and captured 132 German soldiers during World War I. But was he truly the hero of this story, or more of a villain?
After Buffalo Bill Cody was dead and buried, two American towns started a bizarre feud over his remains.
Uncover the hidden secrets of the legendary lost cities of the ancient world.
In 1872, the British ship Dei Gratia came across an unmanned ship floating off the Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship's only lifeboat was gone, but the crew had seemingly left some very important things behind.
When an exotic foreign princess showed up in an English village, it marked the beginning of one of history's wildest hoaxes.
When Edward VIII married Wallis Simpson, it wasn’t just a scandal because she was American. She was also twice divorced—and the scandal changed history.
Indiana Jones might have been a fictional character but there have actually been a lot of famous and infamous real-life treasure hunters in the world who lived a life similar to that of Jones.
From hilarious April fools jokes to fatal ding-dong-ditches, these are some of the world's best, and worst, pranks.
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