Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair gets underway in a field in the small town of Bethel, New York. What began as “three days of peace and music” for an expected 50,000 concertgoers soon exploded into a ...

Before the Soviet Union, there was the Russian Empire, an autocratic regime that was ruled by tsars. By the early 20th century, though, support had decreased significantly for the last tsar, Nicholas ...

Between 1899 and 1951, J. C. Leyendecker drew 322 covers for the Saturday Evening Post, created thousands of advertisements for companies like Kellogg's and Ivory Soap, and invented the idealized ...

The second shoe found at the site was more intact — and so large that it “drew impressed gasps from volunteers and staff alike.” “Although in this case only one of the several sole layers [was intact] ...

But the king wasn’t happy with the National Constituent Assembly, and he quietly began to call in troops around Paris in early July. Rumors soon spread that Louis XVI would forcibly shut the assembly ...

Katarzyna Zowada, a 23-year-old university student based in Kraków, Poland, mysteriously vanished on Nov. 12, 1998. She was supposed to attend an important therapy appointment that day, so her mother ...

In 1903, a strange mix-up occurred at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. When a man named Will West arrived at the prison, the clerk on duty was certain he had processed him before.

Zack Snyder’s 2006 film 300 was a major box office success and a cultural touchstone, largely thanks to the film’s iconic line, “This is Sparta!” While the real King Leonidas never shouted those words ...

According to a new study published in Science, birds have been nesting in the Arctic for far longer than previously known.Though places like Alaska are rife with birds and their young today, this ...

Hadrian was married to Vibia Sabina, but he also had male lovers. This was not unusual in ancient Rome, where older men often had relationships with young men and teenage boys (including teens who ...

The man had seemingly died “painlessly,” and the electric chair thus seemed like a new, more humane method of execution. “The sentence of the court,” the judge told Kemmler, according to court ...