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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Decades after it was taken, AI has helped name the Nazi in a Holocaust photograph long shrouded in mystery - and changed how we remember it.

He married a nineteen-year-old bride in 1772 but, after another break down, forced her into a Convent. From 1783, 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' was ill and was nursed by his daughter until 1788, when he ...

The UK has many church buildings, with some especially reputed for their hauntings. Here are several of those sites — and ...

The bill eventually passed through Parliament and implemented calendar reform on Sept 2nd, 1752, which was immediately followed by Thursday 14th - technically removing eleven days out of the month.

Greatest Escapes of WWII looks at some of the most incredible escapes of World War II. From both sides of the war and all around the world, captured soldiers, sailors and airmen dared the impossible ...

Stephanie St. Clair was the Madame Queen of Harlem. She battled corruption and broke racial and gender barriers. Read more ...

Not all of Baba Vanga’s visions came true. Explore the surprising predictions she got wrong and why people still believe her.

Syndrome K, the fictitious disease invented by Italian doctors that fooled the Nazi’s and saved lives.