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Original copy of Magna Carta discovered inside a scrapbook
An original copy of the Magna Carta has been discovered in a scrapbook in Kent, England.The tattered document dates to 1300, 85 years after King John of England was compelled to sign the first...
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11 inspiring quotes from Abraham Lincoln on liberty, leadership, and character
Abraham Lincoln kept the US united and freed black Americans from slavery.To achieve these historic feats, he relied on a mastery of the written and spoken word. In honor of his 206th birthday, we've...
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The case against turning Ukraine into a buffer state between Putin and the West
Over Christmas I took a long stroll in the snow along with my wife, a proud West Berliner, through the “No-man’s Land” along the former path of the Berlin Wall, erected over 50 years before.We walked...
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Why Friday the 13th is considered so unlucky
Bad luck comes in threes in 2015. This year features a trio of Friday the 13ths, the first of which falls today (Feb. 13).Today, it's taken for granted that Friday the 13th is an inauspicious day, but...
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Why married couples are struggling more than ever before
Marriage has always been a gamble, but the modern game is harder — with higher stakes than ever before.Struggling marriages make people more unhappy today than in the past, while healthy marriages have...
View ArticleFound footage shows the 1915 Chicago River ship disaster that killed 844 people
Spliced into a World War I reel and discovered here, footage of the deadly SS Eastland disaster surprised a graduate student recently, and no one is quite sure how it got here.This video originally...
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Germany just charged a 93-year-old former Auschwitz guard with 170,000 counts...
BERLIN (AP) — A German court says a 93-year-old man has been charged with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he served as an SS guard at the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp in occupied...
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The 19 greatest empires in history
History has seen empires that stretch across a fifth of the world; others that ruled hundreds of millions of people; and some that lasted more than a millennium.Each empire seemed unstoppable for an...
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The story of one of the largest airstrikes carried out against Saddam Hussein...
Following the end of the Gulf War in 1991, two different operations were conducted to enforce the no fly zone (NFZ) that was set to narrow Iraqi government airspace: the Northern Watch, which started...
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How learning to farm 12,000 years ago changed the human body forever
Slicing bread, cooking with gas, inventing the wheel — these are the groundbreaking innovations to which we glibly compare many others. But if you want to talk about a real shift (and go a bit old...
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Here's what it looked like when US Marines landed at Iwo Jima 70 years ago today
The Battle of Iwo Jima kicked off 70 years ago, on Feb. 19, 1945.One of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific theatre of World War II, the 35-day fight for the desolate island yielded 27 recipients of...
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The story of a Medal of Honor recipient killed at Iwo Jima 70 years ago
“Never fear your enemy but always respect them.” — Gunnery Sgt. John BasiloneSeventy years ago, on February 19, Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone was killed in action during the battle of Iwo Jima and...
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7 myths about Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin said humans descended from monkeys.Darwin coined the term "survival of the fittest."Darwin was the first person to theorize evolution as the origin of species.Darwin did not believe in...
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70 years ago, a relatively-unknown photographer took the most iconic war...
The raising of the US flag atop Mount Suribachi on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima 70 years ago is perhaps the most iconic image of World War Two.No other picture so succinctly and evocatively captures...
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From Thomas Edison to Winston Churchill, here are the sleeping habits of 12...
Even world-changing leaders need to rest. Some, like Thomas Edison, hated that fact. He thought sleep was a waste of time and did as little of it as possible.Others, like Winston Churchill, loved to...
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How 16 of the oldest companies on Earth have been making money for centuries
Most companies live between 40 and 50 years. So there must be something about the businesses that have persisted for 300, 500, or 1,300 years.When we doveinto the data on the world's oldest companies,...
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Turkey may have revealed an important change in its approach to ISIS
Just days after finalizing an agreement to train a new rebel force inside Turkey to attack the Islamic State, Turkish forces moved into Syria to evacuate some 40 soldiers protecting the Suleyman Shah...
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Watch a British Phantom intercept a Soviet warplane in the 1970s
Last week, UK’s air defense was once again put to the test by two Russian strategic bombers that flew off Cornwall during a routine long-range patrol over northern Europe.The two Bear H aircraft were...
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24 books you've probably never heard of that will change your life
Even the most well-read people have a tendency to read the same books as everyone else."Classics" are classic for a reason, of course, and are certainly worth reading, but there's a wealth of knowledge...
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Putin is building the same cult of personality that Nikita Khrushchev warned...
Nikita Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” of 25 February 1956 marked the full commencement of “de-Stalinization” in which Josef Stalin’s “Cult of the Individual” would be denounced and dismantled.But it did...
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