How Would The U.S. Look If Slavery Never Happened?
That the economic fabric of this country was, for centuries, tied to slave labor hardly needs explaining. Further, many of the founding fathers owned slaves.
Read MoreThat the economic fabric of this country was, for centuries, tied to slave labor hardly needs explaining. Further, many of the founding fathers owned slaves.
Read MoreLet's take a look at how Saddam Hussein, the fifth president of Iraq, stole a ridiculous amount of money from his own country's central bank.
Read MoreWhen their affair began, both Bergman and Rossellini were married to other people. It didn't take long for the affair to become public and cause a scandal.
Read MoreWith fellow Beats such as Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs roamed the bars and coffeehouses of New York City's Greenwich Village in the mid-20th century.
Read MoreHuman rights organizations and former detainees have provided a look inside some of the facilities and information about the prisoners' lives at Guantanamo Bay.
Read MoreHad the outcome of Jackie Robinson's court-martial been different, the baseball world might never have known one of its greatest players ever.
Read MoreSadly, addiction is an issue that's been around since the beginning of time -- even the Bible has more than a few words to say on the matter.
Read MoreBronson has spent more than 45 years behind bars in England, not for any one crime but for multiple crimes and incidents leading to increases in his sentence.
Read MoreThe Wicked Witch's broom and the Scarecrow costume were partly made of a deadly material that the rest of the core cast ended up exposed to as well: asbestos.
Read MoreOur understanding of the evolution of mammals, after the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, has itself evolved over time.
Read MoreQueen Elizabeth I survived smallpox, but her face was left permanently scarred. Devastated, she began to layer the makeup on to hide the ravages of the disease.
Read MoreGrange halls served as community centers within rural towns, but their main purpose was to provide a meeting house for the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry.
Read MoreMost people know Mike Tyson for being quite a character, and that was something he quickly demonstrated when he visited the famous Playboy Mansion.
Read MoreFour-and-a-half centuries after he died, the scientist, linguist, and economist Nicolaus Copernicus is mostly known for his work in astronomy.
Read MoreHagar was an Egyptian servant who carried a child, Ishmael, for Abraham and Sarah when the couple couldn't conceive.
Read MoreFrom the early days of the Jewish exile in Babylon to more modern occult practices, this is the history of archangels explained.
Read MoreThe day an American president met with an American king, of sorts, produced a photo that has endured as one of the most requested from the National Archives.
Read MoreA second-tier member of the so-called "Rat Pack," which included names such as Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., Lawford married into the Kennedy family
Read MoreEven though it only operated for a few decades, there is perhaps no federal prison more notorious in history than Alcatraz, the "escape-proof" fortified island.
Read MoreFans of infamous mob boss Al Capone may be distressed to learn that the Miami mansion where Capone spent the last years of his life will soon be demolished.
Read MoreIf you've ever been part of a theatrical production, particularly a Shakespeare, you've heard the superstition: Never, ever say "Macbeth" aloud in a theater.
Read MoreThe year was 1954 when Marilyn Monroe stood on a subway grate in New York City wearing a gorgeous white halter dress that billowed in the breeze.
Read MoreThroughout the world, there are places we can't go into, for a variety of reasons -- and we're just dying to see them for ourselves.
Read MoreSharia essentially guides all Muslims and teaches them the best practices that they need to follow. However, there are several myths that plague Sharia law.
Read MoreThere's a good change that most of what you know about martial arts is wrong, particularly if you learned it from popular culture such as TV and B-movies.
Read MoreWho among us hasn't suffered through a long, hot summer day and wished a pool would magically appear? It may seem like a dream, but there were once swimmobiles.
Read MoreAristotle was not known for his sense of romance and courtship and his views on women were dim, to say the least, and saw men as the superior to women.
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