The other Great Wall of China, in Nanjing, is the world’s longest circular city wall, completed in 1386
Human footprints dated to roughly 85,000 years ago revealed in Saudi Arabia
Tests performed on Adolf Hitler’s teeth, held by the Russians for 70 years, substantiate the timeline of his 1945 demise in Berlin
Scientists are now able to track the production of coins in ancient Rome by studying samples of Greenland’s ice
In 1940 two twin-engine airplanes collided mid-air–interlocked, they flew for five miles and landed safely
Sickeningly sweet: The Great Molasses Flood of 1919, moving at 35 mph, toppled buildings and trapped people in Boston’s North End
A daughter finds a treasure trove of 30,000 haunting photographs of life in Leningrad from the 1960s to the 1990s
An ethnic minority in China refuses to give up their home—a massive 160-foot-high cave within remote mountain
Napoleon and the Battle of the Rabbits: Faced with the implacable animal horde, the Emperor beat a hasty retreat
All-star wedding gowns: The most ravishing dresses, from Queen Victoria to Jacqueline Kennedy to Elizabeth Taylor
