List of All Articles with Tag 'history'

The ‘50s weren't all nuclear families with white picket fences and questionable Jell-o recipes.

Are you not up to snuff when it comes to knowing the origin of ‘up to snuff’? We can help you with that.

From the courts to the morgue, if the government doesn't know someone's name or wants to withhold it, they give them one of these as a placeholder. Why?

Did Julius Caesar really say “Et tu, Brute?” Did Nero fiddle while Rome burned? What was with the togas? We answer these questions and more.

The campaign to ban “Sound Effects No. 13 – Death & Horror” didn’t stop it from becoming the first sound effects album to break the UK Top 100 charts in the 1970s.

From Auschwitz to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, these dark tourism destinations are fascinating—and definitely not for the faint of heart.

Scientists tell the BBC that chances of of the lander's reawakening are "dimming with each passing hour".

UNICEF is as big a part of Halloween as a carved pumpkin. Here's how that relationship began.

Chandrayaan-3 was dormant during lunar night, but the extreme cold could have harmed its batteries.

Discover whether you are guilty of maleficium and/or would have been accused of practicing witchcraft according to the laws and evidence used during the 1692 Salem Witch Trials.

Netflix takes several, steamy liberties with the historical record, but there was a real Queen Charlotte—and she was just as complicated as the TV version.

Here are the nuts and bolts about Mary Shelley's 200-year-old tale about what can go wrong when people play God.