The legendary Edinburgh Castle occupies the site of a 350-million-year-old plug of an extinct volcano
Candy Desk: One desk in the US Senate Chamber is always filled with candy
Joseph Pistone, alias Donnie Brasco, infiltrated the Bonanno crime family as undercover FBI agent
Brazilian artist brings the past to life by colorizing old black & white photos
Harry Houdini once sued a police officer who accused him of fraud and won, by opening the judge’s safe
Confederate General Stonewall Jackson – champion of African-American literacy
Herman Kahn: The physicist, nuclear-war strategist, and Cold War “scenario planner” who inspired Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove”
Bombshell Mae West did not begin her career in films until she was almost 40, became second highest paid person in America
The cold-blooded Cocaine Godmother of Colombia invented the motorcycle drive-by shooting that killed her
Chloroform, arsenic, and suspicious family doctors: Lady poisoners of the Victorian era
