Everyone has been telling jokes about the recent trend of hoarding toilet paper, but the people of Hawaii got the dubious honor of experiencing a truly serious toilet paper shortage in 1971.
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Cleopatra made men eat their hearts out and had the destructive prowess to make her siblings bite the dust, but she also had a pretty full plate herself.
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Most people don't associate Wyatt Earp with the deeply frozen north, particularly Alaska. There was money to be made in the Yukon. There, he met Jack London...
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Quarantine is an old idea. And some of the people affected by these old time quarantines were famous. Here are famous historical figures who were quarantined.
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The Rat Pack is the epitome of old-school cool, but there was a lot of turmoil and sadness behind the scenes. This is the tragic history of the Rat Pack.
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In all of human history, what years are the really big ones? The years so significant that they changed the very foundation of what it means to be human.
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David Stern Crockett. King of the wild frontier, as the song goes. By his own count, a hunter and marksman who killed 105 bears in a single season. While he certainly didn't have 105 children, he did have a fair share of both sons and daughters. Here's the story of the fairer half.
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It's a story as old as stories: The young hero, introduced to a more magical world by an older mentor figure, becomes warden to an ancient weapon. Recently in Venice, events have unfolded which echo this monomythic story structure ... just with more reading, paperwork, and other nerd stuff.
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On March 12th, the Winchester Mystery house, located in San Jose, California, announced via its website that it would be closing its doors until at least April 7th, citing concerns about the novel coronavirus pandemic. Now the location is open to the public, if only virtually.
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There are a few inanimate objects which, when spotted in the wild, hold the high-class, semi-mythic air of, say, a mustachioed UFO or a Wendigo in a floor-length evening dress. But among them are the incredibly expensive Lamborghini.
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The son of a house slave named Lydia, Robert Smalls was born behind his owner's house in Beaufort, South Carolina in 1839. He would go on to live a truly incredible life.
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England's Elizabeth I, last of the Tudors, was the second-longest-reigning monarch of what William Shakespeare referred to as "this sceptered isle." She was said to be beautiful, until this happened...
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When Green's Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C.opened in 2017, it supposedly showcased 16 pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Unfortunately, "up to 90% of the 75 fragments sold since 2002 could be fakes." And in the case of the Museum of the Bible, it turned out to be 100 percent.
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Honestly, it's not one of the better jobs in the world, or even in religion. Nevertheless, somebody's gotta be Pope.
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Hemingway actually had a lot of houses. So just how much is one of these places worth?
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If you tend to see the Vikings as cruel, sadistic, muscle-bound axe-lovers, the blood eagle execution is all the evidence you need to back it up.
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Hobby Lobby: depending on your point of view, it's either a pillar of ethical what-have-yous, or the punchline to a middling Bill Maher joke.
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Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, Australia was full of notorious bush rangers on the run from the law, and their true tales are incredibly wild.
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Today we sometimes refer to it as the Wild West. But how wild was its food? And what sort of fare did the legendary Wyatt Earp eat?
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Benedict Arnold committed his first act of treason alongside George Washington and the revolutionaries in the colonies. Then he switched sides. But Benedict Arnold's reasons for betraying the Americans may have seemed justified in his own mind. So why did Benedict Arnold really betray the Americans?
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King Philip II of Spain took the throne in 1556. His reign marked the start of absolutism, an era characterized by all-powerful, completely unaccountable monarchs. But the Spanish Crown's power has dwindled significantly since then. How much power does the King of Spain really have?
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Everybody knows the story of William Bligh and Fletcher Christian … right? Well, as it turns out, this tale of high-seas rebellion is actually pretty insane.
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As Henry grew into his role as King of England he also grew into -- bigger-sized clothing, topping out with a reportedly 54-inch waist. The man became whopping. After all, he was king -- what would be denied him? Certainly not food. Here's what he typically ate.
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When most think of Vikings, the first thing that comes to mind is looting and pillaging. But that's just one aspect of Viking life and culture, and over the years, historians have been able to unravel many more details of daily Viking life. Here's what life was really like as a Viking in 800 AD.
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The Tiananmen Square massacre was a horrific event wherein the government slaughtered thousands of protesting individuals in cold blood. In mainland China, information regarding this mass murder has been suppressed for decades. This is the messed up truth about the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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It's safe to say that April 28, 1789, was not Lieutenant William Bligh's best day ever. Here's the amazing story of the mutiny on 'The Bounty.'
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In 1912, White Star Line vice-president Philip Franklin declared, "There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers." Given what actually happened, Franklin's words would go down as the height of stupid pride ...
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