Davy Jones’ Locker is actually a description of shipwrecks and sinking to the bottom of the sea, feared by every sailors
The legendary Edinburgh Castle occupies the site of a 350-million-year-old plug of an extinct volcano
Martin Cooper, one of several inventors inspired by “Star Trek,” came up with the first mobile phone as early as 1973
Digital reconstruction reveals an 18th century Scottish woman condemned as a witch–and she has “quite a kind face”
Hattie McDaniel of “Gone With the Wind,” the first African-American to win an Oscar, battled discrimination even at the Academy Awards ceremony
They slowly grow and they slowly die: A Bristlecone pine was found to be an astonishing 5,065 years old