Timothy Dexter sold coal to Newcastle, faked his funeral, caned his wife for not weeping
Hunters find a 1,200-year-old Viking sword in remarkably good condition
Sir Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar for role of psychopath Hannibal Lecter with only 16 minutes of screen time and an unblinking stare
Evidence growing that Liverpool cotton merchant and arsenic addict James Maybrick was Jack the Ripper
Billy the Kid was trilingual, one of the language he spoke was Gaelic
Confederados: The 20,000 Confederates who emigrated to Brazil after losing the Civil War
At her first recital, 12-year-old Nina Simone refused to start singing after her parents were moved from the front row to make room for whites
The most decorated US WWI veteran from Texas was actually a Mexican immigrant
Jack Johnson, “the Galveston Giant,” became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion in 1908
The 400-year-old Angel Oak is one of the most remarkable living things east of the Mississippi
