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7 things you didn’t know about the First Battle of Fallujah
April marks the anniversary of the First Battle of Fallujah, aka Operation Vigilant Resolve, which took place in 2004. Led by Marine Expeditionary Force commander Lt. Gen. James Conway and 1st Marine...
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See how the BMW X Series has evolved over the past 16 years
In 1994, BMW acquired Land Rover from British Aerospace (BAe) in a deal worth £800 million.Although, the Rover Group reported 35 percent increase in their sales eight months after the takeover, the...
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Days before the Confederacy surrendered 150 years ago, here's how Lincoln...
After more than four years of exceedingly brutal warfare, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union troops 150 years ago today.After retreating from the Confederate capital of Richmond,...
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How a champion of slavery became the Civil War’s most famous figure
One hundred fifty years ago, in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Ulysses S. Grant won the Civil War.* His chief opponent, Gen. Robert E. Lee of the Confederate States, had surrendered, all but ending...
View ArticleThis is what Lincoln had in his pocket when he was assassinated
It will be 150 years since President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Lincoln was attending the play "Our American Cousin" in a much-needed...
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The first Medal of Honor was awarded for this incredible raid on a...
One-hundred fifty-three years ago, a band of Union soldiers and two civilians launched an audacious raid to strike deep into Confederate territory, the success or failure of which hinged on an...
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The original Associated Press report of Lincoln's assassination doesn't even...
On the night of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the back of the head by assassin John Wilkes Booth while attending a performance of the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's...
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Why France's World War II defense failed so miserably
France suffered a notoriously quick defeat at the hands of its German neighbor in World War II.The country capitulated just six weeks after Hitler's land invasion began on May 10, 1940.France had a...
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Here's how Imperial Russia reacted to Abraham Lincoln's assassination
Abraham Lincoln was shot 150 years ago today while attending a performance of the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, DC. Struggling to hold onto life, Lincoln would ultimately...
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 150 years ago today — here are 11 of his...
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 the 150th anniversary of...
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Eerie tombs full of dozens of mummies discovered
Dozens of tombs filled with up to 40 mummies each have been discovered around a 1,200-year-old ceremonial site in Peru's Cotahuasi Valley.So far, the archaeologists have excavated seven tombs...
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Julius Caesar may have suffered from a series of mini-strokes
London (AFP) - Roman emperor Julius Caesar may have suffered a series of mini-strokes, explaining his dark mood in later life, according to doctors at London's Imperial College.Caesar, who lived from...
View ArticleA behind-the-scenes look at Saturday Night Live — the comedy institution...
"Live From New York!" explores the show's early years and follows its evolution from a cult comedy show into a cultural phenomenon. Archival footage is paired with stolen moments and exclusive...
View ArticleThis incredible interactive graphic shows the second most common language in...
The most spoken language in any country is pretty much a no-brainer: it's the country's official language.A country's second most spoken language, however, is not always so obvious. And in some cases...
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Here's how Wall Street traded before Bloomberg terminals were everything
Early Friday, Bloomberg LP experienced a "significant" unexplained outage of its terminals. With the Bloomberg terminal outage, traders were forced to pick up the phone and do it the old fashioned way....
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How to download a copy of your Google search history
Google now allows you to download a copy of your Google search history, and it only takes a minute.While Google has always made it possible to easily see your search history online, this is different —...
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Watch New York City age 500 years in 60 seconds in this time-lapse video
The New York Times has posted a video of what you can expect to see when you take an elevator to the observatory atop One World Trade Center — and, spoiler: it's really cool.Animated time-lapse videos...
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Ethan Czahor lost his job because of controversial tweets — now he's built an...
Former Jeb Bush staffer Ethan Czahor knows better than anyone that you're just one bad tweet or Facebook post away from getting canned, so he's created a new app called Clear that lets people vet their...
View ArticleThere's a $10 million precious stone hidden in plain sight at Grand Central
Grand Central Terminal is one of the busiest train terminals on earth, with more than 700,000 people coming through the doors every day. Whether they're traveling or simply visiting the beautiful NYC...
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Happy World Book Day — Here are 8 books Neil deGrasse Tyson says everyone...
Want to know why we use fossil fuels to power our buildings and cars? How the US came to be the "leader of the free world"? How we transitioned from floating single-celled organisms to walking, talking...
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