Baseball's greatest players, like any group of people, aren't immune to tragedy and hardship. Here are some tragic details about baseball's biggest legends.
If you wrote a thriller based on the story of Elizabeth Carmichael people would say the plot was too unbelievable. Oh, yeah—it's also the story of a car.
Fred Harvey set out to create a company that essentially became America's first chain restaurant and the epitome of service, while opening up western tourism.
Female assassins have made it into the history, and they each have their own tales to tell, wielding guns, blades, or poisons against high-profile targets.
In 1847, the Duke of Praslin murdered his wife, and it brought down France's government the next year. This is the French murder that started a revolution.
The 1995 Tokyo sarin-gas attacks by the Aum Shinrikyo cult were horrific... and almost worse. This is the crazy true story of the Tokyo subway sarin-gas attack.
Even though the serial killer is a worldwide phenomenon, there's two countries that have given birth to way more of these inexplicably fascinating criminals.
Everything we known about radiation sickness came from experiments on uninformed people. Here's the crazy true story of human radiation experiments in the US.
For much of history, the harem of the Ottoman Empire was purposefully mysterious. The harem was a place where women could be powerful and simply slaves.
No one will mistake The Irishman for a documentary, but most of the time they get things pretty close. Here's what the characters behind The Irishman look like.
Squanto helped the Pilgrims survive the first brutal years of the Plymouth colony through his skills as a translator and a teacher. He was also ambitious.
While some popes sat at the head of the church for years and made sweeping changes, others had incredibly brief reigns punctuated by all kinds of drama.
Iconic football coach Vince Lombardi was a man ahead of his time, who was not afraid to do what it takes, using his coaching skills to make NFL history.
When discussing the long, hot summer of 1967, almost all of the cases of property damage resulted as a reaction to police assaulting or murdering a Black person
The name "Casanova" is almost universally associated with the idea of a seductive and often untrustworthy lover. This is the crazy real-life story of Casanova.
Ed Wood delighted fans of 1950s' Z-grade cinema with shoddy sets, ham-fisted dialogue, and dimestore special effects in such classics as Bride of the Monster.
The Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, were openly lesbian folk artists at a time when few people were out. This is the untold truth of the Indigo Girls.
The armed robber of the roads, the highwayman historically struck unsuspecting travelers, stripped them of their possessions, and then disappeared in the night.
In 1630, John Billington became America's first known person to be executed for murder. This is the real story behind the first murder in colonial America.