It goes without saying that history's worst dictator -- or at the very least, the worst dictator of the past couple of hundred years -- is Adolf Hitler.
The issue with revenge is that it's a slippery slope. What makes one act unjust, and a retaliatory act not so? Here's what the Bible has to say on this subject.
Achilles was a central hero in the ancient Greek tradition, but he doesn't meet the modern conception of a hero. This is the mythology of Achilles explained.
Colonial-era shoemakers were known as cordwainers. Cobblers, a word much more widely known today, were the people who repaired the shoes made by cordwainers.
Before her great-great-granddaughter surpassed her record of being the longest-living and reigning British monarch, that title was held by Queen Victoria.
Jim Jones orchestrated the largest mass murder-suicide in recorded history. Most of his followers died by ingesting cyanide. Here's what his autopsy said.
The Order of the Solar Temple was responsible for the deaths of a staggering amount of people in the mid-1990s. Here's how many fell victim to the cult.