Imagine laughing so hard you physically couldn’t stop. Now, imagine that uncontrollable laughter spreading throughout an entire village. This wasn’t a scene from a movie,
In 1893, while millions of people were visiting the Chicago World’s Fair, a man named H.H. Holmes was making a darker kind of history. Known
It’s hard to imagine a world without either of these two iconic creations—television and the chocolate chip cookie. Yet, despite their association with modern life,
It’s astonishing to think about, but George Washington, the first president of the United States, lived his entire life without ever knowing that dinosaurs once
It’s mind-boggling to think about, but at the same time that the great pyramids of Egypt were being carefully constructed, small groups of woolly mammoths
It’s hard to imagine two more contrasting events: the final use of the guillotine in France, a symbol of centuries-old justice, and the release of
