Contact with European colonists brought diseases that devasted Native American populations and altered the landscape of their settlements
The island of Poveglia in the Venetian Lagoon was used as a plague quarantine, military fortification, mental asylum, and TV location for ghost hunters
George Orwell was an avid tea drinker and even wrote an essay on how to make the perfect cup of tea
Before moving to New York to study acting, Marlon Brando was expelled from high school because he rode a motorcycle through the halls
Pohela Boishakh is the first day of the Bengali calendar, observed in Bangladesh and parts of India, and the current year is 1422
Interesting facts about the Oregon Trail and the pioneers that endured its hardships during their journey
The Handel House: Jimi Hendrix lived in the same London apartment block on Brook Street that the composer Handel lived in two centuries before
Made in Constantinople in 1401, the Monomachus Crown is one of the only two surviving Byzantine crowns
Discovery of 17th century Swiss skeleton baffles archaeologists
Big Nose Kate was a Hungarian-born prostitute and common-law wife of Old West gunfighter Doc Holliday
