In February 2008, a man killed five women and injured a sixth at a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, Illinois, and the murder ...

Just after landing on the Moon on July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin activated a damaged yet crucial circuit with a pen — which has ...

Archaeologists excavating at Minas de Riotinto found eight sandals made of esparto grass that date as far back as 2,400 years ...

In 1560, a man with one leg entered the French city of Toulouse with an unbelievable claim: Someone had taken over his entire ...

Amid all the cruel policies put forward by Nazi Germany, the Lebensborn program is perhaps the least remembered today. It had one mission: to breed a “master race” of Aryan children. At first, the ...

Some historians believe that Revolutionary War officer Friedrich von Steuben was gay, but his actions may have been ...

Archaeologists excavating the Don Yai Thong site in western Thailand's Phetchaburi province found two gold rings dating back ...

Beguines rejected the notion that they only had two paths in life by living together in religious communities without taking ...

John Warnock left his job at Xerox in the early 1980s after his bosses shot down his idea for a programming language that ...

Bradley Nowell died on May 25, 1996, at the age of 28, after overdosing on heroin in San Francisco, California.

The mummified dog was a shocking find for the loggers, who were working on cutting the tree into pieces and almost turned it into mulch. There are some things loggers expect to come across when ...

Archaeologists digging at the Vindolanda site in northern England found a 1,600-year-old relief carving of an ancient Roman ...