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Nike's incredible road to becoming the world's dominant sneaker retailer
Nike is the dominant athletic-apparel brand in the world, with $30 billion in annual revenue.But it wasn't always that way.Here's a look at Nike's history.SEE ALSO: Nike's founder reveals the best...
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Why so many Americans think they're part Cherokee
"I cannot say when I first heard of my Indian blood, but as a boy I heard it spoken of in a general way," Charles Phelps, a resident of Winston-Salem in North Carolina, told a federal census taker near...
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6 of the craziest bayonet charges in military history
Bayonet fighting is a lost art to many, but it has served as a tried and true tactic since the first riflemen realized they could use a blade if they found themselves wanting to kill something when...
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The true story behind Google's hilarious first name: BackRub (GOOG, GOOGL)
Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are definitely fans of wordplay, and they seem to have a thing for company names that are both goofy and yet significant at the same time.A perfect example...
View ArticleThe secrets of Wall Street: slavery, terrorism, and hidden vaults
Wall Street and the surrounding financial district in lower Manhattan are a center of world commerce. But the streets beneath bankers' feet are rich with their own history and secrets. We took a trip...
View ArticleAl Capone: the life and death of the infamous gangster known as 'Scarface'
We've all heard of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone, also known as "Scarface," but there are many things you may not know about the powerful crime boss.Produced by Eames YatesFollow BI Video: On...
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A relic of medieval history explains why glasses make people look smart
Today, more than half the US population wears glasses. But just about everyone, including psychologists, agrees that four-eyed dweebs look smarter and more qualified for jobs than people who don't wear...
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Meet the world's deadliest female sniper who terrorized Hitler's Nazi army
In early 1941, Lyudmila Pavlichenko was studying history at Kiev University, but within a year, she had become one of the best snipers of all time, credited with 309 confirmed kills, 36 of which were...
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Many of the world's first cars ran on electricity
Today, cars that run on gas are the norm. But when the automobile was an emerging technology in the early 1900s, Americans bought more electric vehicles than gas cars.According to Elon Musk's interview...
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This declassified video shows the US military testing biological warfare — on...
From 1949 to 1969, the US government carried out at least 239 tests on unsuspecting US civilians that were meant to simulate biological weapon attacks.Officials back then used what they believed were...
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The discovery of a trove of 47 teeth from a Chinese cave is rewriting human...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A trove of 47 fossil human teeth from a cave in southern China is rewriting the history of the early migration of our species out of Africa, indicating Homo sapiens trekked into...
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Here's the critical difference between marriage today and 30 years ago
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...
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21 pictures of New York City in the early 1900s
New York City, like most older American cities, has changed drastically over the centuries.But one thing that hasn't changed is its residents' desire to photograph it.A vast trove of photos in The...
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The 25 weirdest things people brewed 'coffee' from during the Civil War
Times were tough back in ye old times of the Civil War. Food was being rationed, hundreds of thousands of soldiers were dying, and coffee was a hot commodity that the Union army was guzzling faster...
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These trading cards from the early 1900s show a bizarrely accurate vision of...
Women have always worked hard for the money.Around 1902, a French artist imagined professions that women would hold in the future.He designed a set of trading cards that depicted these women. On the...
View ArticleFDR had a top-secret bulletproof train car beneath Grand Central
It is no secret now that Franklin D. Roosevelt had the unique challenge of hiding his crippling disease of what was believed to be polio throughout his terms as president. He went through great lengths...
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Israel's Prime Minister is getting slammed for statements linking a 1940s...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was pounded Wednesday with a barrage of condemnations after he claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler only decided on the mass extermination of Europe’s Jews after...
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From 1860-1916 the British Army required every soldier to have a mustache
Today I found out that uniform regulation in the British Army between the years 1860 and 1916 stipulated that every soldier should have a moustache.Command No. 1,695 of the King’s Regulations read:The...
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Here's what all 50 state names really mean
If you want to understand a state's history, start by looking at its name.The map below shows the breakdown of all the states' etymologies. The most names, eight in both cases, stem from Algonquin and...
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Here's how the 40-hour workweek became the standard in America
In 1890, the US government began tracking workers' hours. The average workweek for full-time manufacturing employees was a whopping 100 hours.Seventy-five years ago, on October 24, 1940, the eight-hour...
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