In 1965, Syd Barrett co-founded Pink Floyd, and the band soon skyrocketed to fame. Barrett was the songwriter behind some of ...

Freddy Geas reportedly had a particular disdain for rats — and Whitey Bulger infamously worked as an FBI informant.

Archaeologists excavating a 2,800-year-old Scythian tomb in the Uyuk Valley discovered evidence of humanity's earliest-known ...

Archaeologists exploring medieval ruins in Qinngua, Greenland have uncovered a Norse church that was built as far back as ...

Opened in the mid-19th century, McSorley's hasn't changed much — and even still serves just two kinds of beer.

Archaeologists excavating at Tavşanlı Höyük in western Turkey found an ancient clay brick that was stamped with the paw print ...

For hundreds of years, the Ainu people have lived in northern Japan and southeastern Russia. Culturally and physically different from the Yamato people — Japan’s dominant ethnic group — they have a ...

As an adult, Judy Lewis learned that her adopted mother, Loretta Young, was actually her biological mother, and that her father was Clark Gable.

In Celtic mythology, the Cailleach is a powerful goddess associated with winter and storms — but also with creation myths.

On April 2, 1993, Ellie Nesler walked into a small courtroom in Jamestown, California, and shot Daniel Mark Driver, the man who was accused of sexually assaulting her young son. Driver died at the ...

You know how some people can’t stop thinking about the Roman Empire? Well, for a growing corner of the internet, the Romans are yesterday’s news. The civilization that captures their imagination is ...

If someone asked you about your favorite food, a Cessna 150 airplane probably wouldn’t be the first thing that came to mind. For Michel Lotito, France’s Monsieur Mangetout (or Mr. Eat-All), a plane ...