From mercury and arsenic tonics to heroin cough syrup, radioactive water, and lobotomies, discover popular historical medicines and treatments that often caused more harm than the illnesses they were supposed to cure.
Discover the forgotten people behind history’s most famous victories, inventions, discoveries, and breakthroughs, from Alfred Russel Wallace and Rosalind Franklin to Ub Iwerks, Frank Worsley, and Branch Rickey across history.
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich became one of Russia's most powerful men—but history remembers him for a far darker reason.
Waiting used to be built into ordinary life. Information traveled on paper, entertainment followed schedules, photos hid inside undeveloped film, and even getting online could occupy the household telephone. These experiences did not disappear overnight, but for Americans born in the late 1990s or later, many were already becoming optional during childhood.
Tom Waits is the “boho hobo” singer-songwriter whose gravelly voice and gritty lifestyle have left both fans and critics divided.
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