Why does Columbus get a holiday for sailing to the Carribean when Viking pioneer Leif Erikson allegedly landed in North America centuries before? Christopher Columbus...
When Ivan Borkovský found the medieval warrior skeleton in 1928, Czechoslovakia had only been a country for 10 years. His troubles had only just begun....
One historian traced Queen Charlotte’s ancestry to a Moorish mistress through six different bloodlines. Wikimedia CommonsThe queen’s portrait by Allan Ramsay, who was a known...
St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, wasn’t Irish, never banished the Emerald Island of snakes, and wasn’t even named Patrick. FlickrThe life of St....
Wordsmith, wit, and secret masochist Samuel Johnson overcame a host of ailments and financial struggles to write his masterpiece, A Dictionary of the English Language....
In stark contrast to the Hitler Youth, the Pirates resisted Nazism in Germany in any way they could at a time when doing so was...
Atomik Vodka produced in Chernobyl, Viking beer hall unearthed in Scotland, Holocaust survivor’s 104th birthday held in Jerusalem. The post This Week In History News,...
These researchers noticed that the areas of the world with the highest concentrations of reported 110-year-olds actually had poor average lifespans and healthcare. It just...
The study looked at 1,241 venues in 78 countries on all continents. Seventy-five percent broke basic mistreatment rules. World Animal ProtectionZoo D’Amneville in France offers...
Advanced technology has detected the sketch of a Da Vinci masterpiece hidden beneath the finished product as well as the artist’s own handprints. The National...
