Queen Elizabeth II's funeral was guided by strict protocol. Here's why Prince Andrew and Prince Harry were not allowed to salute during the funeral.
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Black cats have been associated with bad luck and bad omens for centuries.
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Lists are helpful ways to organize information, even to understand the world, in science as well as philosophy. There are helpful lists to be found in Buddhism.
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Whether it's what they wore, items placed in their coffins, or even the coffins themselves, here are some of the things American presidents were buried with.
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Climbing Mount Everest is no easy feat, but in 2013 a former stray named Rupee became the first dog ever to climb Mount Everest.
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Elvis Presley's yacht had another famous owner before the King of Rock bought the USS Potomac in 1964.
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There's a reason why many Korean folk tales open their stories with this same phrase, and it's not one you'd necessarily equate with children's stories.
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The name Windsor is used by the British royal family, but it's an adopted name, and the origin is wilder than you think.
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If you're of a certain age, the "Free Willy" movies might have given you a benign view of orcas. That might change if they're biting your sailboat.
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A surprising discovery of rare Byzantine coins advances the notion that the cosmos and regular commerce previously intertwined. Here's the story.
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Good fences make good neighbors, said the poet, but fences, or any other kind of boundary, don't necessarily stop one country from moving on another.
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Arguably one of the most beloved people to ever be a part of the British royal family was Princess Diana, who some say shifted the perception of monarchy.
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The 1963 war epic "55 Days at Peking" may have been nominated for Academy Awards, but that doesn't tell the story of the film and its drama behind the scenes.
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Throughout history, people have turned to various remedies for their ailments, including objects. As for madstones, here's what people thought they could do.
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While Nazi scientists were welcomed in the U.S. after World War II, scientist Qian Xuesen was deported to China, where he advanced the country's space research.
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The world's largest airport, located in Saudi Arabia, played an unexpectedly crucial role in the Gulf War. Here's how the airport featured in the war.
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If you've been born, that means that, sooner or later, you, too, will die. But if it is later -- much, much later -- does that make a difference?
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Deep inside the Paris Catacombs, you'll find eerie quotes and carvings among this "empire of the dead." Read the messages the dead have left underneath Paris.
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There are a lot of famous places in Paris, but the creepiest might be the bone-filled tunnels beneath. This is the messed up truth about the Paris Catacombs.
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St. Patrick's Day sees the world turn green; Valentine's Day is bedecked with red. But why is Halloween so consistently associated with certain colors?
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British royalty certainly lives royally, but not always in palaces or castles. Here are some British royal residences you've never heard of before.
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The American Civil War was fought between the North and the South from 1861 to 1865. This is how the war started and its major turning points over four years.
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Pablo Picasso is renowned for his painting, so his very first word probably won't come as a surprise to you. His first word was an allusion to an artistic tool.
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How Europe's longest-reigning monarch, the queen of Denmark stunned her royal family with an anouncement some of them weren't happy about.
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Dinosaurs continue to fascinate, even after their extinction. In fact, a North Dakota excavation had one paleontologist rethinking the dinosaurs' extinction.
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Britain's longest-reigning royal, Queen Elizabeth II, might not have been ruling over the kingdom for quite as long as the public originally suspected.
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Part of the grounds of LSU's campus show human activity from so long ago, not even the Egyptian pyramids are as old as this ancient finding.
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