After failing to assassinate Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, a conspirator gulped cyanide, jumped into a four-inch river
The year 1816, the “Year Without a Summer,” saw floods, food riots, gorgeous sunsets, and “Frankenstein”
Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner, and a marriage too hot to handle
Fort Boyard: Built by Napoleon, this stone sea fort was later used as a game show set
Olivia de Havilland, who turns 101, helped Clark Gable through his hardest scene in “Gone With the Wind”
Louis Cartier created the wristwatch so that aviator Santos-Dumont could check his performance while flying over Paris
An online atlas shows for the first time centuries of hill forts in the UK and Ireland
Stunning portraits of First Nations People of Alberta from 1910
Roger Fenton, the very first war photographer, captured the grim reality of the Crimean War
The magic-minded Georges Méliès was one of the greatest movie pioneers but today nearly half of his movies are lost
