Coco Chanel’s actions during German Occupation of Paris draw attention, supporting accusations she was a spy for Nazis
An online atlas shows for the first time centuries of hill forts in the UK and Ireland
Katharine Hepburn’s mother was a prominent suffrage supporter and a birth control advocate
Since the Cuban Missile Crisis, no U.S. president has been without the Nuclear Football
The year 1816, the “Year Without a Summer,” saw floods, food riots, gorgeous sunsets, and “Frankenstein”
Text by Hippocrates, the Father of Modern Medicine, was found in a remote Egyptian monastery
One way to increase a used car’s value overnight: a rare meteor collision
Canary Girls: The poignant story of the Munitionettes and how the poisons of WWI turned their skin yellow
After Patricia Neal had a stroke, husband Roald Dahl helped with her therapy, and even invented a new language based on her words
Jack Johnson, “the Galveston Giant,” became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion in 1908
