What It Was Really Like To Take Part In A Duel
What drove men (and some women) to settle conflicts with pistols or swords? The answers are surprising. Here's what it was really like to take part in a duel.
Read MoreWhat drove men (and some women) to settle conflicts with pistols or swords? The answers are surprising. Here's what it was really like to take part in a duel.
Read MoreNASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. has a whole graveyard of wrecked race cars on his wooded property in North Carolina, Dirty Mo Acres.
Read MorePaul Castellano had an outsized salary between his legitimate businesses and his life in the mafia, with oversized spending habits to match.
Read MoreVlad the Impaler's life is worth exploring on its own, and not necessarily for the fictional creature he inspired.
Read MoreFormer WWE diva Devin Taylor has become a successful business woman since leaving the entertainment world.
Read MoreA variety of players from diverse backgrounds have been a part of NFL over the years. Sadly, some of their life stories have been incredibly tragic.
Read MoreWhether for the average person or for a famous person, funerals are not cheap affairs. Who had the most expensive funeral in history?
Read MoreFor those nights when we don't feel comfortable enough to be at our most vulnerable, many people want to sleep with one eye open.
Read MoreJoseph Edward Duncan, a serial killer and child molester who was awaiting execution, has died in hospital of brain cancer
Read MoreFreddie Mercury was one of the greatest frontmen in the history of popular music. Many stood by his side in his final days. Here are their last memories .
Read MoreThe upcoming elections in a part of India have gained a good deal of viral attention in recent days, thanks to the outlandish promises of one of its candidates.
Read MoreAside from the death of the uncle who raised him for most of his childhood, John Lennon also had to deal with the loss of his mother, Julia.
Read MoreThe Discovery Channel show Gold Rush: Dave Turin's Lost Mine suffered a tragic loss with the death of cast member Jesse Goins in August 2020.
Read MoreMythbuster Tory Belleci was born to blow things up. He turned his childhood passion for pyrotechnics into a career.
Read MorePeople have been decorating graves, in fact, for at least 70,000 years, and leaving coins on gravestones has a specific symbolism.
Read MoreApril 15, 1989 should have been a thrilling day for fans of Liverpool FC. By the end, 94 were dead. This is the tragic true story of the Hillsborough disaster.
Read MoreA serial killer who killed gay men in 1970s San Francisco has never been caught. Here's the truth about unidentified serial killer "The Doodler" explained.
Read MoreIndustrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt went from rags to riches over the course of his life, but how? This is how the Vanderbilt family really got so rich.
Read MoreRenditions existed before 9/11, but then the government started calling them extraordinary. This is the unsettling history of government-sponsored abductions.
Read MoreThe young United States drew inspiration from knowledge gleaned from the past, including the Great Law of Peace that created the Iroquois Confederacy.
Read MorePublic Enemy Number One John Dillinger bounced in and out of jails for most of his 31 years, not just because of his crimes, but because no jail could hold him.
Read MoreJ.D. Salinger, best known for his one-and-only, but classic, novel The Catcher in the Rye, was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
Read MoreIf there was one person who epitomized the excesses of the late '80s/early '90s Hair Metal movement, it's none other than comedian/former preacher Sam Kinison.
Read MoreWhile serial killers are known for suffering from varying sorts of mental and personality disorders, the vast majority of them can function in regular society.
Read MoreIt takes moxie to not only survive one of the worst shipwrecks of all time but to star in a movie about surviving the infamous shipwreck a month later.
Read MoreZak Bagans, the host of Ghost Adventures, is no stranger to the paranormal. He claims to have had encounters with ghosts and spirits from the other realm.
Read MoreWhile his slew of murders defined his life before he was executed in 1989, a lesser known fact is that Ted Bundy first practiced his sick craft on pet mice.
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