As pioneering TV mogul, Lucille Ball spotted potential of “Star Trek,” “The Untouchables,” and “Mission Impossible”
From Vikings to Roman gladiators: Puy du Fou theme park in France is the real deal for all avid travelers
The Astronaut who took this photo is the only human, Dead or Alive, that isn’t in the frame of this 1969 picture
Hattie McDaniel of “Gone With the Wind,” the first African-American to win an Oscar, battled discrimination even at the Academy Awards ceremony
Using this world map with literal meanings of each country’s name, discover which ones mean “Land of Many Rabbits,” “I Go to the Beach,” and “Hippopotamus”
An invitation to a 100 A.D. birthday party is among the Vindolanda tablets, oldest surviving Roman handwritten documents in Britain
Nightingale floors: the Japanese flooring system used for alerting castle lords to nighttime attacks by ninja assassins
The Egtved Girl, found in Denmark in 1921, was a true Bronze Age traveler of high status, with a sense of fashion too
When the Royal Household criticized her Indian servant Abdul Karim, an angry Queen Victoria called it “racial prejudice”