Other memorable names from the Golden Age of Hollywood include Cary Grant, James Stewart, James Dean, Gregory Peck, Grace ...

Winters (in real life blond, but played by the red-haired Damian Lewis in the TV show), was born on January 21, 1918, in New ...

The murder of Faith Hedgepeth shocked the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in September 2012. The 19-year-old student was beaten to death in her bed — and nobody knew who did ...

Some say everything is bigger in Texas, and they’re right — at least when it comes to ancient fauna. According to Smithsonian Magazine, a new analysis from the University of Austin revealed that the ...

Months after its sale, the most expensive piece of artwork ever sold is having its attribution called into question. The $450 million painting titled Salvator Mundi, is believed to be the work of ...

After reading about the coin hoard in Poland uncovered by a father and son, discover the story of the Defenestration of ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it blanketed the Roman city of Pompeii in ash, freezing the area and its residents in time. And in the last few centuries, archaeologists have continuously ...

To many, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy seemed like a princess in a fairy tale. She was tall, beautiful, blonde, and — as of 1996 — married to John F. Kennedy Jr., the dashing son of John F. Kennedy. But ...

Between 1934 and 1963, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was one of the most feared prisons in the United States. Its location in the middle of San Francisco Bay, surrounded by rough, frigid water, made ...

George “Machine Gun” Kelly was a Tennessee gangster who got his nickname from his favorite weapon, the Thompson submachine gun. During Prohibition, Kelly was a notorious bootlegger, but his most ...

The Civil War was the deadliest war in America’s history. More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives, and the conflict had drastic impacts on the social and political fabric of the country. When the ...