Queen Elizabeth II has been reported to be in ill health, and family members are rushing to her side. This popular tourist attraction was canceled as a reuslt.
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Great Britain's longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, has died.
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One Ivy League university in the US holds the world's largest academic library, with millions of volumes. Here's how many books you can find at this library.
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The most complicated out of all the possible scenarios for the queen's death is if she were to die in Scotland at Balmoral Castle.
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More than garden tractors, or harvesters, or combines, the John Deere name is celebrated by agriculture for a magnificent insight into designing farm equipment.
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For as impactful a leader as Dwight D. Eisenhower was, there were certainly controversial aspects to his presidency.
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Apparently there's such a thing as being too fast for your own good, as a U.S. military test pilot discovered in the midst of a 1956 flight.
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Several religions practice the throwing of dirt on the coffin in their funeral rites, and thus it has various but similar symbolizations. Here's what they mean.
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The Roman Empire rode roughshod over countless communities and peoples. It's certainly no surprise that frequently, those who had been conquered pushed back.
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Charles Lindbergh made headlines and enthralled the world with his transatlantic flight. He flew light, carrying nothing extra -- did that apply to food, too?
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McDonald's drive-thrus are a staple of the fast food industry, but they didn't always exist. They actually got their start thanks to the U.S. Army.
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While the U.S. was under terrorist attack on the morning of September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer and others on hijacked Flight 93 took matters into their own hands.
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Kyle Dunbar's controversial track record on "Ink Masters" was well-documented, but perhaps this incident during the "Redemption" series takes the cake.
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All manner of material has been used over the millennia to create watercraft, for transportation of people and goods. In Nebraska, it recently meant a pumpkin.
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The University of Alabama expelled its first black student in 1956, and the reasons are extremely sad. Here's why the student was expelled.
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JFK's assassination wasn't the only one Lee Harvey Oswald was linked to. The former marine also had his sights set on another high-ranking official.
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The gruesome Puritan Massacre at Ulster in 1641 set the stage for centuries of dysfunctional Anglo-Irish relations. Here's everything you need to know.
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Grief is a universal experience but how it's processed is not. Here is the real reason that Jewish people tear their clothes after the death of a loved one.
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The phrase "pass with flying colors" is common in everyday vernacular, but where did it come from? Here's where the popular phrase originates.
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A teenage soldier in World War I named Leonard Knight was saved from a German bullet by a small pocket Bible, which stopped the bullet in its tracks.
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While Americans and Europeans tout Mikhail Gorbachev as a hero, Russian views are less positive. This is what Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union was really like.
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In 1835, the emperor of Vietnam, Minh Mạng ordered Joseph Marchand, a 32-year-old priest and missionary, to die by a painfully slow form of execution.
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While a recognizable calendar system has remained almost unchanged for nearly two millennia, you can't say the same about the way we measure the time of day.
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Troops stationed in hot areas like Iraq and Afghanistan have historically needed to have access to air conditioning and it costs a lot of money.
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Sometimes a site's popularity can be a good thing -- a boost to the local economy, for instance. Other times, popularity results in diminishing a site's appeal.
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Even world leaders are still human beings, and some have formed family relationships on their way to power, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin among them.
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World War II affected much of life on Earth, some in unexpected ways, including the Russian reindeer who lived on a British submarine for six weeks. True story.
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