The meanings of nursery rhymes are often twisted or forgotten, creating a weird contrast of happy little children singing songs about deadly tragedies.
Among the Titanic survivors was Charles Lightoller, the oldest crew member to survive the tragedy and a witness during the American and British inquiries.
Nazi leader and German dictator, Adolf Hitler, committed suicide on April 30, 1945, by shooting himself in a Berlin bunker as the Allies were closing in.
The contents of a 2019 report on the horrors of the CIA torture program revealed that the "enhanced interrogations" were even more brutal than we thought.
Plato boiled moral thought and action down to four foundational characteristics that everyone should strive for: prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.
As it was often necessary for CIA operatives to secretly communicate with one another, the agency developed a variety of codes for public information exchange.
When Rome was just a growing city, another force was dominating the shores of the Mediterranean: the Phoenicians, with their powerful city-state of Carthage.
While the Holocaust and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are widely discussed and taught in schools, the Nanking Massacre is less well-known.
Did you know the human brain is so fragile that entire social structures can collapse, giving way to a phenomenon known as mass psychosis or mass hysteria?
Jenner decided to pursue decathlon athletics -- a competition that includes a variety of track events. This would earn her a chance to compete in the Olympics.
When workers at the Philadelphia Transportation Company went on strike in 1944, they weren't protesting low wages but the promotion of Black coworkers.
Adultery is a sensitive topic in relationships. Unsurprisingly, it is a recurring topic in the Bible, appearing 52 times in the Old and New Testaments.
The L.A. Four were caught on helicopter video pulling a white truck driver from his vehicle in broad daylight and beating him within inches of his life.
When Pope Clement XII banned Catholics from joining the Freemasons, Clemens August of Wittelsbach, the Elector of Cologne, created his own secret society.