An Atomic Age for kids: Nuclear optimism in the 1950s spawned toys that promised to be a “seething scientific creation,” with some actually containing radioactive elements
A statement by the teenage murderer in a 1979 school shooting inspired Bob Geldof’s “I Don’t Like Mondays”
The tangled story of Pat Garrett, the Old West lawman who kept getting into trouble
Frozen in Time: Inca mummies, buried 500 years ago, look as if they died yesterday
Katy Jurado, the Mexican femme fatale of the silver screen who was a bullfighting aficionado
Shirley Temple was Rumored to be a Dwarf
Evil emerged from Pandora’s jar, not box as we’ve believed, and it might be the fault of Erasmus
The Sad Final Night at the Zoo of the World’s Last Tasmanian Tiger
Death in space: after the three astronauts of Soyuz 11 became heroes of the Soviet Union, catastrophe struck
DNA analysis reveals a woman buried in a Viking warrior grave—and proves the naysayers wrong
