Biblical scholars have interpreted the tree of life as being a symbol of Adam and Eve's spirituality and their relationship with and dependence on God.
When a half-million Soviets invaded Finland in 1939, they thought it'd be an easy task and perfect present for their leader, Josef Stalin. They were wrong.
John F. Kennedy traveled to Texas on November 22, 1963, to shore up support. He left in a casket. Here's what it was really like the day JFK was assassinated.
Between 1972 and 1973, Herbert Mullin killed 13 people in and around Felton, California. His reason for the killings was even stranger than might be expected.
Poon Lim's survival came down to a combination of luck and determination. You'd have to have a little of both in order to survive 133 days lost at sea.
Emperor Franz Joseph I rose to power when he was only a teenager. He was the latest ruler from the powerful royal family known as the house of Habsburg.
Colonial taverns started life as a place for the adults (especially men) to congregate for a drink. And the colonists certainly didn't shy away from them.
Today, Victorian death photos make rounds online and although they may seem morbid and disturbing, they once provided loved ones consolation in times of grief.
Moses, hearing the voice of God in the burning bush, directing him to lead his people may be familiar. But, several interpretations explain the phenomena.
Johannes Vermeer's oil painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring," is one of the greatest mysteries of the art world. Who was the girl and was that really a pearl?
Everything was going fine until a week into the tiger shark's residency when out from the shark came a rat, bird, and — to everyone's horror — an intact arm.
Henry "Box" Brown has gone down as a legendary figure of the American Anti-Slavery movement — a brave and ingenious character and a powerful campaigner.
Countless media has centered around the ingenuity and daring attitude required to attempt to break out of jail, but real-life attempts are not always so clever.
Bob Marley may not have invented reggae, but he certainly helped bring it out of the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, and into more mainstream popularity.
On August 17, 1957, the Philadelphia Phillies played a day-time baseball game against the then-New York Giants that would go down in history for a weird reason.
War is a bad idea, but it sometimes leads to good ideas that end up benefiting humanity. The Soviet Union's idea to make flying tanks was not one of the latter.