More than 39 years after a botched operation on his knee left him in a decades-long coma, soccer player Jean-Pierre Adams died on September 6 at the age of 73.
Getting permission to live in the Vatican is almost impossible. It is a privilege given to the clergy and the Swiss Guards responsible for the pope's security.
True crime dramas and documentaries might have a reputation as being sensationalistic, but here's the thing: at the heart of them all are true stories.
With U.S. shipyards entered into the equation, a cheaper merchant vessel could be churned out in enough numbers that the Germans couldn't sink enough of them.
Heist movies like "Ocean's 11" captivate audiences with their daring plans and quick-thinking improvisation that have the masses rooting for criminals.
A conveniently anonymous art collector really upped the ante when he decided to fork over $18,300 worth of cash for a masterfully crafted sculpture of nothing.
The Swiss Guards are composed of highly-trained soldiers and marksmen. Besides personal protection, they carry out various ceremonial duties at the Vatican.
One of the first was Father Mychal Judge with the city's fire department. On that fateful day, he joined the firefighters as they responded to the North Tower.
Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal." The sentence had different interpretations through the years after.
As each half of the brain has a greater specialty than the other, disconnecting them can lead the now independent organs to perceive the world very differently.
But when it came time for dinner, and if wife Mary could lure him out of the office for a meal, Abraham Lincoln liked his comfort food - especially this meal.
People of science don't know everything there is to understand about how glass becomes, well, glass. In particular, they're curious about the glass phase.
In his first cartoons, Mickey was voiced by none other than Walt Disney himself, who provided all his vocalizations before the character actually spoke.