Strappado was used to torture witches, heretics, and more during the Inquisition. The method is simple but just as brutal as any other device or mechanism.
President Jefferson appointed two men -- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark -- to assemble a team to explore the region and return to Washington with notes.
Legendary R&B singer Rick James lived through enough drama for many lifetimes. While known for a hedonistic lifestyle, drugs and alcohol once saved him.
Dr. Shakil Afridi is thought to be directly responsible for helping the CIA pinpoint the location of terrorist Osama bin Laden within his compound in Pakistan.
This presidents menagerie included 11 horses, six dogs, five guinea pigs, two cats, one pig, one badger, one macaw, one bear, one hen, one rabbit, and many more
Powerhouse rock and blues singer, Janis Joplin, is infamously a member of the "27 Club," the unofficial term for long list of stars that died tragically young.
For as long as cars have a been around, people have been using them not just to get from here to there, but to race them. But the practice can be dangerous.
September 11, 2001, remains one of the worst days in American history. On that day, a group of terrorists carried out separate, coordinated terrorist attacks.
On October 17, 1977, Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd released their fifth studio album titled "Street Survivors." Only three days later, tragedy struck.
In 1873, the Brunot Agreement, forged between the Ute Tribe and the United States government, gave the United States access to 3.7 million acres of land.
The Coast Guard and Navy worked to locate any sign of the missing plane, but after two weeks, the U.S. government declared Earhart and Noonan lost at sea.