The future Elizabeth I was cast off and virtually forgotten about as a child by King Henry VIII, forcing her governess to write letters begging for clothes     Â
An archaeological dig on the Swedish island of Öland reveals a massacre that happened 1,500 years ago
President Theodore Roosevelt acquired a new pet from a 12-year-old girl on his 1903 whistle-stop tour of the West—a baby badger
The Greatest Tricks of Camouflage used Throughout the World
In Spain, two women fooled a priest into marrying them in 1901
The Thai Queen who Drowned Because an Ancient Law Forbade Touching a Royal
A storm uncovers an ancient Roman aqueduct as well as a 16th century road at site of popular tourist beach in Cádiz, Spain
Queen Mary I of England was not known by her notorious nickname until more than a century later
The one bodyguard assigned to Ford’s Theater to protect President Lincoln abandoned his post for a drink on the night of the assassination–and wasn’t fired for it
Joseph James DeAngelo, aka the Golden State Killer, Was Finally Caught Due to ‘Discarded DNA’
