As Earth's highest mountain at 29,035 feet above sea level, Mount Everest has been attracting daring climbers, adventurers, and dreamers for decades.
The Crucifixion of Jesus is one of the most significant events in history, but it also raises many questions. Here's the Crucifixion of Jesus explained.
That the economic fabric of this country was, for centuries, tied to slave labor hardly needs explaining. Further, many of the founding fathers owned slaves.
With fellow Beats such as Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs roamed the bars and coffeehouses of New York City's Greenwich Village in the mid-20th century.
Human rights organizations and former detainees have provided a look inside some of the facilities and information about the prisoners' lives at Guantanamo Bay.
Queen Elizabeth I survived smallpox, but her face was left permanently scarred. Devastated, she began to layer the makeup on to hide the ravages of the disease.
Grange halls served as community centers within rural towns, but their main purpose was to provide a meeting house for the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry.
Even though it only operated for a few decades, there is perhaps no federal prison more notorious in history than Alcatraz, the "escape-proof" fortified island.
Fans of infamous mob boss Al Capone may be distressed to learn that the Miami mansion where Capone spent the last years of his life will soon be demolished.
Evolution works in interesting ways. And it often happens through natural selection, which is responsible for both impressive and terrible developments.
Who among us hasn't suffered through a long, hot summer day and wished a pool would magically appear? It may seem like a dream, but there were once swimmobiles.
Aristotle was not known for his sense of romance and courtship and his views on women were dim, to say the least, and saw men as the superior to women.
Polish scientist Nicolaus Copernicus is a titan of astronomy, largely thanks to his pioneering the theory that the Sun sits at the center of the solar system.
Aristotle believed in teaching the important subjects — logic, physics, rhetoric, politics, and philosophy — so much he opened his open school in Athens.
British highwayman Richard "Dick" Turpin roamed the English countryside in the 1700s, robbing people and stealing horses until he was executed in 1739.
No ancient descriptions of Atlantis are known to exist independently of Plato's work, which describes Atlantis as an expansive and indulgent continental empire.
During the war, both the Allies and Axis developed munitions that were remotely guided by radio, wire, and television in order to strike specific targets.