How rich was Al Capone? We separate Outfit revenue from his take, translate to today’s dollars and bust myths.

In 1945, after three long years of war, the fight between the Allied forces and Japan over Burma finally ended. Japan was ...

During the Middle Ages (also known as the Medieval period) public torture and execution was common throughout the United Kingdom and regarded as a socially accepted form of punishment. Different ...

Cleopatra’s dramatic life and death were so intense it verges on fiction, something that was noticed by literary giant William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra) and George Bernard Shaw (Caesar and ...

Thousands of innocent women were sentenced to death as the ‘witch craze’ swept across Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. The southeast England county of Essex alone was responsible for many of the ...