President Abraham Lincoln and former enslaved person Frederick Douglass developed a friendship during the Civil War based on mutual respect and appreciation.
Despite renown and riches, Ernest Hemingway was a fatally troubled man, and his suicide was neither the first nor the last tragedy for the Hemingway family.
B.B. King, undisputed master of the blues guitar, had a career spanning decades, making magic with a series of guitars named Lucille. Where did B.B. come from?
It's one thing to build a career on theft -- taking what doesn't belong to you and getting away. Unless you get caught. And then, unless you escape. A lot.
The ubiquitous vacuum cleaner is now a mainstay in many homes. However, the first iteration of the vacuum cleaner was pulled by horses, and here's why.
Numerous mysterious crimes have been solved when evidence appears from an unexpected source. Case in point: a tiger shark who vomited up an intact human arm.
The executive, the legislative, and the judicial branches of government are designed to balance each other. There are moments when all the attention is on one.
Famous artists have come from different times and places, so their lives, as well as their deaths, reflect that. This is where these famous artists are buried.
The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of annihilation. In seeking help, former President John. F. Kennedy reached out to this unlikely source.
A thoughtful, and thought-provoking, work of art leaves no detail without meaning, from the arrangement of objects within the frame to the colors used.
The ancient Greek world is filled with battles and wars spanning many years. However, it was one long and bloody war that ended the golden age of Greece.
Charles Darwin is the father of the Theory of Evolution, and one of the world's most famous scientific minds. But he also struggled with his mental health.
While many may believe that once you become rich you will remain that way, there are many famous figures throughout history who have lost all their money.
Naturalist Charles Darwin, who is behind the theory of natural selection, came up with many of his evolutionary ideas on a trip to the Galapagos Islands.
You don't have to be a horse person to love the Kentucky Derby. Here are a few things you might not know about this century and a half-old American tradition.
Like the children's party game of Telephone, the books of the Bible have been copied and re-copied over centuries. Do the originals still exist anywhere?
Nuclear weapons are among the most dangerous weapons in the world, and played a huge role in the Cold War. Here's how many nuclear weapons the U.S. has.
A rare U.S. Supreme Court draft was leaked ahead of a possible landmark decision to overturn Roe V. Wade. But has a similar draft ever been leaked before?
Since the coronavirus pandemic handshakes have been on shaky ground. But, the greeting has been around since antiquity with various meanings behind them.
The British royal guard is famous for wearing red, but there's actually a simple and practical reason behind this. Red was cheapest and most available dye.
We all know Buckingham Palace as the main residence of the Royal Family, but it wasn't always that way. This is the palace that once served as their home.
King David, a key figure in a number of religious texts, might be a familiar name for many -- less so than his many wives. So what's the story behind it all?
There's something almost poetic about a goalie getting the opportunity to score. Here's how many have been able to do so over the course of NHL history.