It's said that some people wear their heart on their sleeves. Heart-shaped candy boxes, heart-shaped emojis -- but they don't really look like a heart. Why?
Beginning in 2014, human-rights advocates began raising concerns about China's treatment of the Uyghurs, an ethnic community in the country's far northwest.
Volcanoes are dangerous places and many of them are too volatile to visit. Intrepid explorers can, however, descend into the magma chamber of one volcano.
In October 1982, an American marine archaeologist and treasure hunter named Robert Marx made a curious discovery in the Bay of Jars. Let's take a look.
Unfortunately, there's nothing quite like a complex scandal involving royalty to attract people's attention. It's true now, and in 14th century France, too.
In 1795, Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais fell in love, and Bonaparte proposed with a lovely engagement ring containing a sapphire and a diamond.
While once a relatively obscure historical figure to most, Alexander Hamilton has found a resurgence in notoriety because of the musical bearing his name
The Habsburgs are a European royal family which, through the ages, developed particular facial features. Here is the history of the "Habsburg Chin" explained.
Some countries have a monarchy -- family members take over from family. Others elect leadership. Transition in Russia these days is a little more murky.
Every culture has its symbols of power and authority, whether a crown, or insignia, or other distinctive garb. What about scepters -- why, and what for?
Many Americans would be hard-pressed to name the person who preceded Vladimir Putin in his job as Russian president. So how long has he had this position?
War, no matter how large or small, is a brutal affair, nothing to enter lightly by any nation. The United States requires a declaration of war -- sometimes.