Despite what everyone thinks, bank heists were almost nonexistent in the Wild West
The first vehicle to exceed a speed of 60 mph was a purpose-built electric car
The surprising truth behind the classic V-J Day photo of a sailor passionately embracing a nurse
Spy Game: When Soviet schoolchildren presented Ambassador Averell Harriman with a replica of the Great Seal of the U.S. in 1945, there was a listening device inside
The Altamont free concert in 1969 featured the Rolling Stones and was intended to be Woodstock West but ended in crime and chaos
Singapore Botanic Gardens houses a fantastic orchid collection, including the tiger orchid, believed to be oldest orchid in the world
Ancient Roman coins discovered by two excited friends with a metal detector turned out to be fakes planted in field by TV show
Calico, in San Bernardino County: Miners, gunslingers, and brothel-keepers were all drawn there by the California Silver Rush
Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators say Robert Wagner is a “person of interest” in the tragic death of Natalie Wood in 1981
Four shark killings in 1916 triggered a tsunami of hysteria that inspired Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster “Jaws”
