The Qur'an, Rabbinic lore, and extrabiblical texts like the "Wisdom of Solomon" depict a very different version of Solomon, though: He's a wielder of magic.
The team was so driven that they skipped meals and just drank powdered orange Tang. By 1987, at age 31, Bill Gates became the world's youngest billionaire.
Some presidents were doing the job while facing secret struggles and confronting their mortality. Here's the US presidents who suffered the most tragic deaths.
The Mount Erebus disaster was (and still is) New Zealand's worst peacetime disaster, killing 257 people. Here's the tragic story of the Mount Erebus disaster.
Norfolk Island is an Australian territory located a little more than 1,000 miles from Sydney and was used as a penal colony for the 'worst of the worst.'
Period films are made to be entertaining but historically inaccurate movies can give misconceptions of history. Here are films that got Victorian history wrong.
The story behind the creation of our 35th state is a lot more complex than you might think. Here's the real reason West Virginia broke away from Virginia.
Before his unique Mafia stint ('The Oddfather'), eventual arrest, and death, Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante began like many mobsters before him: as a boxer.
The Derg began a campaign to nationalize industry and farmland, in addition to abolishing feudalism and promoting literacy -- in part, by committing genocide.
Outside of the States, and in particular when it comes to European soccer teams, the names can be a bit more arcane. Manchester United. Real Madrid. Arsenal.
Mozart began playing the harpsichord at three, and by five, he was composing. But he would have more success in music than building a flourishing family.
Wilde never recovered from prison and died a few years later, impoverished and alone, and all because of Lord Alfred Douglas: The man who destroyed Oscar Wilde.
One food that was as common to the Romans as wine and olive oil is something that most people would not think of today -- a fermented fish sauce called garum.
Before NASA sent Apollo 13 to the moon, the agency asked heads of state around the world for messages to send along, including from Queen Elizabeth II.
The Keeper of the Swans was responsible for both the job of the Warden as well as the Marker of the Swans, but now they work in tandem to perform "swan upping."