Meet some of the world's most-colorful characters in this collection. From Roman times to the Spanish Main, these individuals were famous in their own lifetimes and later, when their stories became the "stuff of legends."
While Theseus was sailing to Crete, as a Tribute for King Minos and the Minotaur, the monster had a dream.
As his own father had abandoned his mother and her baby, Theseus abandoned his new wife, Ariadne.
After his marriage to Anne Boleyn - and the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth - Henry VIII decided to look elsewhere for a wife.
On the 21st of October, 1941, Alan Turing and three of his Station X colleagues wrote a secret letter to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It caused a...
Typhoid Fever - a life-threatening disease caused by bacteria, not by a virus - still impacts about 21.5 million people every year.
"Ultra" was the cover-name given to the actual intelligence, obtained from decoding Germany's military messages at Bletchley Park, which was secretly ...
The USS Hornet (CV-8) had a special cargo aboard during April of 1942. No one knew for sure if that special cargo - a group of airplanes - could actua...
People have been exchanging Valentines for hundreds of years, but what do we know about the origins of this romantic Day of Love called "Valentine's D...
Victor Emmanuel II became the first king of Italy in 1861. Ten years later, the entire country was united under his rule.
Uncovering Viking ships is like unearthing Pharaonic tombs. And uncovering Viking ancestry, via the Human Genome Project, is just as interesting.
An American Marine found a briefcase on Saipan containing nothing but information regarding Amelia Earhart. Was it her briefcase? If so, how did it ge...
Did you know that whale oil helped to fuel the Industrial Revolution - and - that oil from a Sperm Whale comes mostly from its very large head?
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