At a raucous, three-day party in 1921, a young starlet became severely ill and died four days later. Newspapers went wild with the story: popular silent-screen comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle ... Read More

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh drove a truck containing a home-made bomb up to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. When the bomb exploded at 9:02 ... Read More

Recently, 3,000 pictures of German cities were found in a wooden trunk that had been tucked away for decades in an attic. Nazi architect Albert Speer had commissioned the pictures, ... Read More

After hundreds of items, worth an estimated $5 million, were systematically stolen from Russia's famous Hermitage Museum in 2006, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an audit of the country's museums. ... Read More

On Friday, July 19, 2008, former South African president and civil rights leader Nelson Mandela turned 90-years old. He celebrated his birthday quietly with family on Friday and then attended ... Read More

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Electronic Message Preservation Act. This act, if passed by the Senate and if it survives a likely veto by President Bush, would ... Read More

Using aerial photos and maps prepared by insurance companies following the Second World War, a private British company has prepared maps indicating the likely location of unexploded bombs throughout England. The maps ... Read More

July 16/17 marks the 90th anniversary of the massacre of Nicholas II and the Russian royal family. An poll by state-run television in Russia is asking the people to vote for ... Read More

After the African National Congress (ANC) was banned in 1960 by the apartheid government of South Africa, Nelson Mandela and other members of the ANC were placed on the United ... Read More

When civil rights activist Rosa Parks died in 2005 at the age of 92, she left most of her estate to the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. ... Read More

The new Madame Tussauds wax museum in Berlin includes a controversial wax image of Adolf Hitler. In response to worries that the wax Hitler would add to Hitler's cult image, ... Read More

Although most of us believe we know what Mahatma Gandhi's voice sounded like, most likely we do not. Gandhi usually preferred to give speeches in the native Indian languages ... Read More

Fifty-five years after spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed, some records related to their trial will be released. Because of the historical importance of the trial, the U.S. government ... Read More