While most kids have a grasp of the colors, shapes, and the numbers 1-10 by first grade, very few have that mastered by the age 18 months, as did Kashe Quest.
Nostradamus focused on writing almanacs and became an astrologer. His work proved so popular that powerful figures of the time hired him to "read the stars."
The evolution of skateboarding has followed a nonlinear path and gone through periods of decline, but the sport (or hobby, or lifestyle) has zigzagged uphill.
In 1992, Stanislav Lunev became the highest-ranking Russian officer to ever defect to the US. The info he gave in exchange for his protection was shocking.
Eileen Welsome published an expose revealing one of the most morally reprehensible atrocities that the U.S. government ever committed against its own people.
Betty and Dan Broderick married in 1969 and had four children together: Kim, Lee, Dan, and Rhett. After it all went wrong, what do their kids think today?
Grabbing a Kleenex used to be serious business. The ubiquitous household item that we take for granted today once served an important function in World War I.
The Olympic Games are one of the most-watched televised events, garnering billions of viewers all over the globe — but there's nothing like seeing it in person.
Visiting the Roman Colosseum during its heyday was an unbelievable, violent experience. Here's what it was really like being a spectator in the Colosseum.
For a while in the 1990s, Beanie Babies -- plush and colorful toys produced by manufacturer Ty -- were all the rage. Consumers gobbled up the popular toys.
No one really knows what happened to Theodosia Burr Alston. She was the oldest daughter of Aaron Burr, the vice president who killed Alexander Hamilton.
Before its fiery end, the Hindenburg was a luxurious, expensive, and fast way to cross the Atlantic. Here's what it was like traveling on the Hindenburg.
Warren G. Harding is remembered as one of the worst U.S. presidents ever. Here are some of his dark secrets that help explain how he got such a reputation.
Today, it might be unthinkable that barbers would perform rudimentary operations on top of their more familiar duties but such was the lot of a medieval barber.
New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia jumped onto the back of a vegetable truck at the Bronx Terminal Market and announced that small artichokes were banned.
The Tulsa Race Massacre is considered one of the worst massacres in American history. Countless people lost their lives and some remains are still being found.
Bribery, racism, and human rights abuses are just some of problems with the ICO. This is the controversial history of the International Olympic Committee.
Leonid Rogozov, in a base in Antarctica, had the classic symptoms of acute appendicitis and had to undergo surgery to survive, but he was the only doctor there.
For over 60 years, immigrants arriving in America through New York were processed at Ellis Island — the last of which was a sailor who overstayed shore leave.
In 1976, as the Olympics were ramping up in Montreal, Quebec -- mere days before the opening ceremonies -- more than 30 teams simply packed up and went home.
In Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s, was a time now known as the ice cream truck wars. That doesn't mean ice cream vendors throwing cold treats at one another.
In some cases in the Bible, individuals get less than a sentence, while in others, they get whole books. Death is often an important part of a person's story.
For centuries, ships, sailors, and those observing from the safety of land have seen countless sea serpents, tentacled beasts, massive fish, and even mermaids.