Over 150 years ago, Charlotte E. Ray became the very first Black woman to graduate law school and be admitted to the bar in any state in the United States.
The Gospel of Judas paints the Bible's traitor in a very different light than the version of Judas that has been in circulation for thousands of years.
Chris Skaife has one job and one job only: to keep watch over the ravens at the Tower of London. Here's the foreboding reason it's imperative that they live.
Ever wonder how a holiday celebrating Jesus includes bunnies and eggs? The answer lies in Medieval Easters, which featured traditions that may look familiar.
Reaching sainthood is an impressive accomplishment - even more so when the honor is bestowed upon children. Here are the youngest saints in the Catholic Church.
The Freedom House Ambulance Service revolutionized the concept of emergency medical services. In doing so, the service saved lives in more ways than one.
The personification of the rainbow, the goddess Iris represented a connection between Heaven and Earth and sent messages between the two. Here's her story.
Things could get pretty dodgy when it came to dying in the Wild West. The ultimate fates of the bodies of Wild West legends aren't always what you'd expect.
The George W. Bush years have become synonymous with a string of major emergencies from September 11th to Hurricane Katrina to the 2008 financial crisis.
Ancient people relied on harvests for survival, so it makes sense they developed stories to explain the changing of the seasons. Here are some involving spring.
Evidence suggests that the legend of St. Brendan's voyage should not be discarded. Here is the legend of the Irishman who may have "discovered" America.
It's generally not okay to store pieces of dead people in the cupboard. The medieval Christian world used to be full of relics of the famously holy dead.
The naval crew slowly lowered Lt. James Carter into the National Research Experimental (NRX) Reactor in Chalk River, Ontario, Canada. Here's the story.
The ancient Egyptian deity Anubis was associated with death and the transition to the afterlife, but there are details about this god that are not well-known.
An ancient Israeli tomb offers evidence that a certain type of brain surgery was more common in the Middle East region than once thought, according to a study.
Goya decorated the walls of his home with a series of frightening works later known as the "Black Paintings." Here is what the art world has to say about them.
It's not just a lack of trophies that makes the Knicks' history so tragic. Saddening as these people and events may be, they are all part of the Knicks' story.
The growing tension around Atlanta's proposed Cop City has resulted in protests, fires, property damage, arrests, and most tragically, the death of an activist.