In an effort to draw the world's attention to Puerto Rico's colonial subjugation by the United States, Lolita Lebrón opened fire in the House of Representatives
But then there's the story of Dean Paul Martin, who really hit the genetic jackpot -- overflowing, and in good measure. His parents were Dean and Jeanne Martin.
The fifth season of Inside the World's Toughest Prisons recently dropped on Netflix. The series examines the culture of incarceration around the world.
Haim wasn't without ambition. He wanted to be the next James Dean, he told The Los Angeles Times at one point. "I know I can do it. ... [H]e's such a legend."
The Pulitzers were once the leading media family in the US, but they weren't without their troubles. This is the tragic real-life story of the Pulitzer family.
Besides thousands of deaths, Duarte's war on drugs has packed the country's prisons beyond their capacities, creating dire security and public heath situations.
For all of Elvis' career, his manager, "Colonel" Tom Parker, was calling the shots, and he was pretty shady. Here's the truth about Elvis Presley's manager.
"My clothes are blue, the Dodger color," Lasorda said. "... Cut my veins, and I bleed Dodger blue. If trouble comes, I pray to that big Dodger in the sky."
We worry today about the phenomenon of online bullying, but even the analog social media of the Victorian era saw its fair share of mean communication.
Astronauts have the same basic needs up in space as they do anywhere else in the solar system, and microgravity makes their morning routine a bit more tedious.
For more than 150 years, the Supreme Court has had nine justices. But it wasn't always that way. The number of justices was left for Congress to decide.
You might have noticed how unevenly distributed the human species is. Perhaps this made you wonder: Where is the most densely-packed region in the world?
Martin Luther King Jr. Day became a holiday 33 years after his assassination in 1968, and the bill, proposed immediately, did not even get a vote until 1979.
Inauguration Day in 2021 will be January 20, as it has been since 1933, the result of passage of the 20th Amendment, also known as the "Lame Duck Amendment."
We all know that asteroids are looming out there in space, just waiting for our orbits to align so they can take us out just like they did the dinosaurs.