At a private gala in London, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union, sold a CD of him singing seven romantic ballads to his late wife, Raisa. ... Read More

Officials in the Polish town of Jaslo have a dilemma. They would like to cut down a 40-foot oak tree standing in a location where a planned roundabout would improve ... Read More

We've all seen it. It adorns T-shirts, mugs, and posters. It is that rare image of famous scientist Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out at the photographer. This particular copy ... Read More

For decades, Britain maintained a secret War Book that detailed plans about what the government should do in a nuclear attack. Created during the Cold War, the book included ... Read More

In 1978, archaeologists uncovered part of the terracotta army, created by Qin Shihuangdi, the very first emperor of China (221-210 BCE). Over 20 years since the last excavation closed, a ... Read More

On February 13, 1960, France exploded its first nuclear bomb. called "Gerboise Bleue" (or "Blue Desert Rat"). Since then, France has conducted 209 additional atomic tests. In some of these, ... Read More

The first episode of the extremely popular TV series MASH aired on CBS on September 17, 1972. The concept of the MASH storyline was thought up by Dr. Richard Hornberger. ... Read More

From 1936 to 1945, Adolf Hitler's personal photographer, Hugo Jaeger, took pictures of the Nazi leader. After the war, Jaeger managed to smuggle some of the pictures out and then ... Read More

Friday, June 12, 2009 would have been Anne Frank's 80th birthday if she had not died during the Holocaust. What would have Anne Frank have looked like? A company called ... Read More

Bernard Leon Barker, former CIA agent and one of the five men to break into the Watergate building in 1972, died Friday, June 6, 2009 at age 92. Barker had ... Read More

For 70 years, the identity of the spy who passed Britain's atomic secrets to the Soviets was known only as "Eric." Somehow "Eric" managed to escape Britain's anti-espionage apparatus for ... Read More

Charles Donald Albury was the co-pilot on the plane that dropped the atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945. Albury also witnessed the dropping of the atomic bomb ... Read More

There has been a long history of rivalry between Great Britain and France, which has now spilled over into this year's celebrations for the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings ... Read More

Oxford University's student newspaper, Cherwell, recently conduced a survey of 850 students about their sexual activity. One of the more surprising results was that history students were the most promiscuous, ... Read More

We have all heard, and perhaps even personally used, the phrase, "the greatest thing since sliced bread!" Yet, when was sliced bread invented and why was it so amazing? Find ... Read More

Millvina Dean was only nine weeks old when the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912. Millvina survived with her mother and brother; however, her father perished in the disaster. Millvina, ... Read More