According to legend, Rome was first established in 753 B.C.E. by the twin brothers Romulus and Remus, who were the sons of Mars, the god of war.As the city grew in size and power, Rome eventually ...

Henry II, who served as King of England from 1154 to 1189, is born in Le Mans, France. Henry was the first king of the House of Plantagenet, which would rule for the next 300 years. He was known for ...

As Cicero wrote, per a translation by Gavin Betts: “Indeed this tyrant himself gave his judgment as to how fortunate he was. For when one of his flatterers, Damocles, mentioned in conversation the ...

During the Early Modern Period, tickling presented philosophers with a fascinating case study into the nature of pleasure and pain. According to Cabinet magazine, the philosopher Descartes claimed ...

The most obvious theory about why people believed in dragons is also the most straightforward: dinosaurs. As BBC’s Science Focus magazine reports, people across Europe and Asia have historically ...

Linda Napolitano’s case sounded like something straight out of science fiction. However, it differentiated itself from other well-known alien abduction stories in that, according to Budd Hopkins, ...

Ed and Lorraine Warren likely need no introduction. The two paranormal investigators have been permanently embedded into the pop culture zeitgeist thanks to the success of The Conjuring franchise. The ...

Yōkai are supernatural beings like kappas, demons, and even haunted household objects that have appeared in Japanese art and folklore for centuries. It’s difficult to define yōkai in simple terms.

Before becoming infamous as the leader of the Manson Family cult, Charles Manson had a troubled early life marked by abuse and frequent run-ins with the law, starting with petty crimes and escalating ...

While the Los Angeles Mafia never rose to the same notoriety as its counterparts in New York and Chicago, the crime family infiltrated Hollywood, had a hand in the growth of Las Vegas, and terrorized ...

The story has a romantic element, but making Tyrian dye was anything but. To produce the dye, ancient people collected thousands of murex sea snails along the beach (species like Hexaplex trunculus, ...

After the successful release of The Amityville Horror, which sold more than 10 million copies, many paranormal investigators from across the country traveled to Amityville to explore the notorious ...