Movies make being a knight look really cool—and present a distorted picture of historical reality. Here's everything movies get wrong about being a knight.
There are several theories as to where Uncle Sam came from. One says he was inspired by a meat packer during the War of 1812, but he may be even older.
These were supposedly the faces of random, anonymous New Yorkers, which Dewey-Hagborg had generated from samples of DNA she gathered from discarded artifacts.
Despite a years-long string of murders and assaults, "Shoe Fetish Slayer" Jerry Brudos was not caught until a college co-ed reached out to police with a lead.
Before the Federal Bureau of Investigation was aware of the existence of serial killers, Earle Nelson became the first known serial sex murderer in America.
A symbol of decadence and the power of the French monarchy, the Palace of Versailles is beloved for its gardens — which took a surprisingly long time to finish.
The killer's crimes were indeed monstrous, and shocking to Macedonia, a nation in which "almost nothing happens," according to one of its top journalists.
One thing New Zealand is not is a property to be bought and sold. It is an independent nation, albeit ceremonially still a part of the British Commonwealth.
As any pair together for five decades will tell you, some wild things happen along the way — like when John Oates caught an infamous Australian bandit.
While the Palace of Versailles has major architectural, cultural, and historic value, "science" is not a word that would often come to mind in relation to it.
Called "dancing lemurs" because of their unique sideways hopping gait, Beatrice and Elliott are the beginnings of a conservation breeding program in England.
You might want to revisit that idea that something you are talking about is "light as a cloud." Those white wisps of vapor weigh a bit more than a little mist.
Jurors in the Casey Anthony trial had a hard job. Here's what it was like to serve on the jury of such an emotionally charged case and to decide Anthony's fate.
The Korean War marked a lot of firsts, including the first time in the modern age that a president sent U.S. troops to a war without congressional approval.
If you're a normal human being, you've no doubt thought about the end of the world from time to time -- or, more specifically, the end of the human race.
Claudine Longet saw mountains of media attention in the 1960s and 1970s - though perhaps not the kind she would've desired - when she stood trial for murder.
Some of us prefer to think of the law enforcement system as infallible -- locking the truly dangerous ones away forever -- but that's often not how it works.
One of the most notorious serial killers of modern times is Todd Kohlhepp, whose killing spree began in 2003 and lasted until 2016. This is how he was caught.
In 1932, the Emu War was declared in Australia. A few months later, the emus were declared the victors. Here's the messed up history of Australia's Emu War.
Ellen Liddy Watson was a rumored outlaw, accused of sex work, theft, and rustling cattle, the only woman lynched for cattle rustling in the United States.