The wreck of the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a Portuguese treasure ship seized by pirates in 1721, has been identified near ...

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called ...

Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

As a deity of agriculture, Kokopelli is said to chase away the winter by playing his flute, each year ushering in the spring and symbolizing the newfound growth that accompanies it. He is also ...

By 1991, many in the Soviet Union felt that change was in the air. The last several years had seen the end of the war in Afghanistan, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and a series of revolutions across ...

Athelstan rose to become England’s first king in the early 10th century. But his journey to the throne was far from easy. Born to Edward the Elder and his mistress, Athelstan faced opposition due to ...

Though Prince initially split his time between his mother’s home and his father’s home, he had complicated relationships with both of his parents, and he later ended up living with his neighbors, the ...

Marie-Thérèse, unhappily married to her husband, spent the rest of her life in exile and died in 1851 at the age of 72. Ultimately, however, she lived the longest of all of Marie Antoinette’s children ...

The family lived in a beautiful home in Surrey, England, where Soon-Yi and her siblings were entertained by a menagerie of pets. But as Soon-Yi tells it, hers was an unhappy childhood. Soon-Yi told ...

Philip Hamilton was born on January 22, 1782, in Albany, New York. That spring, Alexander Hamilton wrote to Richard Kidder Meade, an American Army officer, about how proud he was of his newborn son.

In 1915, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out on an expedition in the Endurance to become the first team to make a land crossing of Antarctica. Their ship would become stuck in the ice and sink, ...

At the end of April 1975, "White Christmas" suddenly blasted through the streets of Saigon, Vietnam. This was a signal to Americans that the evacuation of the city had begun. With that, so did the ...