Month: April 2014

The small city of Fulda was on the border between West and East Germany in the Cold War. It was ...

Narodnaya Volya was a Russian left-wing revolutionary terrorist group. Formed in 1879, Narodnaya Volya was passionate about political reform for ...

Originally found and dismissed in the 1960s, Gobekli Tepe is rewriting how we think of the evolution of modern society. ...

Sequoyah was a of the Cherokee Native American. An illiterate silversmith, he needed a way to track his clients and ...

The Toraja people of Indonesia practice bizarre funeral rituals. The dead spend several months in temporary coffins until the family ...

In an attempt to link schizophrenia with the excessive production of dopamine, researchers built a computerized neural network that would ...

We've all seen beautifully illustrated medieval manuscripts, but next time you see one, take a closer look. Monks who were ...

In August 1942, Britain was under siege from German U-boats preventing much-needed supplies from coming into the island. Oil, incredibly ...

In the 1760s, a Scottish doctor named Lewis Hutchinson immigrated to Jamaica. There, he settled in an estate called Edinburgh ...

In 1974, the word “outbreak” took on a whole new (though no less deadly) connotation when there was a massive ...

It's long been thought that humans are born with all the brain cells that we'll ever have. Some researchers have ...

In April 1945, the Allied Forces began to liberate concentration camps. Determined to show the world just how heinous the ...

King George III might have been a mad king, but he was mourned when he finally passed away after a ...

The peace symbol is an internationally known icon representing harmony, love, and the end of war; happy things, all of ...

After being placed as captain on the USSR's Soyuz 1 mission, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was launched into orbit. After inspecting ...

At a time when maps still bore depictions of sea monsters, the world's scientists, explorers, and monks alike were arguing ...

Presenting someone with the keys to the city has always been a big deal, so it was an honor when ...

Sushi is one of the most popular dishes in the world, but the raw seaweed and fish can often be ...

Each year, up to 500 followers of Jainism in India starve themselves to death. As the process takes place, dozens ...

The Battle of Tippecanoe was a victory for the United States government against the Shawnee Indians, but according to legend, ...