Violet Constance Jessop may have been one of the luckiest women in the world. In addition to nearly dying as a child, she survived three ship disasters.
Balder's death is hugely important in Norse myth. And that death is a pretty involved bit of mythology, so let's get into all of the details surrounding Balder.
Microwaves heat and cook foods in a quick and timely manner. If a microwave can heat and cook the flesh of animals, surely it can cook that of a human, right?
The Panic of 1873 wasn't the first financial panic and it definitely wasn't the last, but it had an enormous effect on American society and the Global North.
In 1996, brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez were found guilty of the murder of their parents. Despite his prison sentence, Erik still found love behind bars.
John F. Kennedy survived the war, but his admission into the Navy in the first place was only possible because of his family's wealth and political influence.
A hard truth: Earth, the Solar System, the Sun, and the Universe at large are not immortal entities, and one day, far into the future, existence will cease.
When most of us picture life as a princess, we picture a fairytale. However, the story of Princess Helen of Serbia turned out to be more of a nightmare
In 1928, Ernest Hemingway was in his late 20s and had already gone through his first divorce when he visited the island of Key West in the Florida Keys.
Somewhere in the middle of the Sahara Desert, Prosperi kept walking. He had a knife, compass, sleeping bag, and some food. What he lacked, however, was water.
With political experience under his belt, you would think the role of president would be natural for John Quincy Adams. Turns out this was not exactly the case.
Besides the dizzying heights, workers at Mount Rushmore suffered through extreme weather. To distract them from the hardship, baseball became part of the job.
Surrealists supported communism and the French Communist Party, which Dali seemingly believed in as well. But he soon developed a fascination with fascism.
Physicist Lise Meitner was not only part of the scientific team that discovered nuclear fission, she was also vocal about the reaction's destructive potential.