Kirk Douglas, 101, a Hollywood icon who plays tough guys but is a soft-hearted philanthropist offscreen
The True Identity Behind the Iconic Face of the Great Depression
The bizarre story of how a railroad worker survived an iron rod which went through his skull
When Abraham Lincoln died, his corpse was sent on a controversial two-week funeral tour across America
Clayton Anderson: The NASA engineer who got to be an astronaut–after 15 years and 14 rejections
In 1909, schools were closed after a flurry of sightings of the Jersey Devil: a kangaroo-like creature with wings and a goat’s head
An Italian duke created the Park of Monsters, filled with stone creatures, as a way of coping with his wife’s death
Game of Thrones’ Red Wedding is based on Scotland’s Black Dinner in 1440 and Glencoe Massacre of 1692
Bookmobiles – Now a thing of the past
The mystery of the Octavius: An 18th-century ghost ship was discovered with the captain’s body found frozen at his desk, still holding his pen
