Not even a murder trial and the unmasking of her fake pregnancy stopped Emma Cunningham's search for love and legitimacy
An 1864 case that ended with the execution of eight Haitians for child murder and cannibalism has helped define attitudes toward the nation and the religion ever since
The young scientist demolished the old guard's ideas on the nature and size of the universe
Corporate violence against union organizers might have gone unrecorded—if it not for an enterprising news photographer
Was the man whose assassination began World War I riding in a car destined to bring death to a series of owners?
In 1836, three Scottish boys discovered a strange cache of miniature coffins concealed on a hillside above Edinburgh. Who put them there—and why?
It would take a miracle to beat Craig Wood in 1935. Gene Sarazen provided one
The lawman had a reputation to protect—but that reputation shifted after he moved East
Did he, and other Vikings, really use a brutal method of ritual execution called the "blood eagle"?
An American whaling ship brought together an oddball crew with a dangerous mission: freeing six Irishmen from a jail in western Australia
In 1820, one of Britain's most notorious criminals hatched a plan to rescue the emperor from exile on the Atlantic isle of St Helena -- but did he try it?
The whaler <i>Essex</i> was indeed sunk by a whale—and that's only the beginning
Vivian Gordon was a reputed prostitute and blackmailer—but her murder led to the downfall of New York Mayor Jimmy Walker
Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper credited with 309 kills—and an advocate for women's rights. On a U.S. tour in 1942, she found a friend in the first lady
Did members of a powerful society of warlocks actually murder their enemies and kidnap children?
In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga
Ida Wood, who lived for decades as a recluse in a New York City hotel, would have taken her secrets to the grave—if here sister hadn't gotten there first
With the help of his friend Mark Twain, Grant finished his memoirs—and saved his wife from an impoverished widowhood—just days before he died
The minister of armaments was happy to tell his captors about the war machine he had built. But it was a different story when he was asked about the Holocaust
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