Things The Ancient Greeks Couldn't Live Without
Although Greek culture could vary a lot from city to city, certain things were universal. These are the things the ancient Greeks couldn't live without.
Read MoreAlthough Greek culture could vary a lot from city to city, certain things were universal. These are the things the ancient Greeks couldn't live without.
Read MoreThe year is 1922... don't get caught wearing this kind of hat.
Read MoreThroughout history, there have been many accounts of inexplicable aerial phenomena that some say are early records of UFO sightings.
Read MoreClaude Monet's paintings portray the beautiful scenery of France, and while sometimes blurry, many of them make you feel as if you are in a dream.
Read MoreIt's not the cherriest of gigs, running the free world. Still, the office is nice, and you get your own bowling alley. Maybe that's why children across the United States dream of the day when they'll grow up to be president.
Read MoreMalcolm X remains one of the most complex and controversial figures in American history. Here are some of the false things you believe about Malcolm X.
Read MoreRecollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865, an 1895 book which collects anecdotes from Ward Hill Lamon about his presidential friend, included one particularly odd note about a dream.
Read MoreThe Diné, also known as the Navajo Nation, have a long history on the North American continent. This is the untold truth of the Navajo Nation.
Read MoreThe griffin -- also gryphon (says Mythology), also grypes (says Theoi) -- traditionally is a blend of an eagle's front crafted onto the body of a lion. And it may have been based on a real animal.
Read MoreRecent history has not been kind to Thomas Edison. Once remembered as a titan of creative thought, today he's become more or less synonymous with the corrupt underpinnings of American industrialism and man's capacity to dash his rivals' dreams, or go to New Jersey and electrocute an elephant.
Read MoreWhen we talk about pharaohs, we really are talking about ancient history -- Ancient Egyptian history, with a dollop of the Greeks thrown in for good measure.
Read MoreLife as a Viking wasn't easy, but there was more to it than legend makes it seem. Here are the things that the Vikings couldn't live without.
Read MoreThe 1992 LA riots rank high as one of the most racially volatile moments in post-Civil War America.
Read MoreThe Hoover Dam is exactly the sort of thing that a Bond villain would want to blow up. Enter the Nazis, the real-life Bond villains of the mid-20th century.
Read MoreSteve Jobs first founded what would be one of the largest tech companies in 1976 with his business partner, Steve Wozniak. The two met on a chance occasion, and it's a good thing fate was in their favor, or we might not have had the iPhone, the MacBook, or the iPod.
Read MoreVikings has been a truly massive success for the History Channel, and for the show's first four seasons, it was spearheaded by a larger-than-life main character.
Read MoreMùlán has served as inspiration in China for centuries, an example of self-sacrifice for the greater common good; of devotion to family; of bravery. Could she have actually existed?
Read MoreLong before people were tossing coins to ultra-buff witchers, they were placing them in the mouths of the dead. "Charon's Obol," as such coins have been dubbed, have been found in the graves of the once-living since the 5th century BCE, largely throughout Western European countries.
Read MoreWhile certain bands are infamously secretive about their creations, pop legend Prince has typically been frank about the meaning behind his songs. Purple Rain is an exception.
Read MoreHistorically speaking, it's never been easy to convince Catholics and Protestants to agree on things. However, in the late 1400s, the two denominations put their differences aside and essentially started an interfaith book club.
Read MoreIt would be hyperbole to declare that mathematician Alan Turing saved England and won the war against the Axis in Europe during World War II. But there's no question the war would have had a very different outcome if Turing hadn't been there during the time Churchill called "the darkest hours."
Read MoreThe year was 1774, and German physician Franz Anton Mesmer had done the impossible: he had cured Francisca Österlin's hysteria. Supposedly
Read MoreIf you ever want to get away from it all (and not just go to that one town where cell phones are illegal), you should consider looking into moving to one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world. Unfortunately, it's not one of those remote places that'll pay you to live there, but hey.
Read MoreToo often in life, people are divided into socially reinforced groups, diametrically opposed to one another on principle. Jets versus Sharks. Montagues versus Capulets. Contemporary versus classical theater nerds. And, for a time, Star Wars fans were often pitted against Star Trek fans.
Read MoreOne weird truth of ancient board games is that they offer a candid view into how people from a different age approached the game of life — like a quick 'n sneaky casual snapshot taken when the subjects weren't deliberately composing themselves to look good.
Read MoreHistory forgets the role Black Americans had in their own liberation during the Civil War. This is what life was like for Black people during the Civil War.
Read MoreArchaeological digs can shed some light on long-held theories, even ancient ones. So when archaeologists discovered human bones in the Sahara desert, they thought they had finally found a Persian army lost to the sands centuries ago, ultimately solving an ancient mystery.
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