In February 2008, a man killed five women and injured a sixth at a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, Illinois, and the murder ...
In 1560, a man with one leg entered the French city of Toulouse with an unbelievable claim: Someone had taken over his entire ...
During a hot South Carolina summer in 1915, 30-year-old Essie Dunbar died of an epileptic seizure. Or so her family thought. They called a doctor, who confirmed that Dunbar showed no signs of life.
Archaeologists exploring Celtic ruins in Allonnes discovered five pairs of shackles alongside other metalwork like spearheads ...
Some historians believe that Revolutionary War officer Friedrich von Steuben was gay, but his actions may have been ...
Archaeologists digging at the Vindolanda site in northern England found a 1,600-year-old relief carving of an ancient Roman ...
On June 22, 1994, Colombian soccer player Andrés Escobar accidentally scored an own goal during a World Cup match against the United States. Just 10 days later, he was shot dead. Escobar was known as ...
Archaeologists excavating at Minas de Riotinto found eight sandals made of esparto grass that date as far back as 2,400 years ...
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.
Auschwitz was one of the most infamous concentration camps of the Holocaust. Between 1940 and 1945, more than 1.1. million people were murdered at the camp, including one million Jews. When the Ovitz ...