September 11, 2001 was one of the darkest days in modern American history. In a series of coordinated terrorist attacks, carried out by al-Qaeda, hijacked commercial planes were turned into deadly ...

Cleopatra accomplished many remarkable things during her short life. But she’s most famous for her death. In 30 B.C.E., the 21-year-old Egyptian queen died by suicide in Alexandria, when it became ...

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In a new study published in Science, researchers analyzed the impacts of free-roaming bison in Yellowstone National Park. Thanks to decades of conservation efforts, the park’s bison population has ...

Discover the real story of Griselda Blanco, the Colombian drug trafficker known as the "Cocaine Godmother" who ruled the Miami underworld in the 1970s and '80s. Known as the “Cocaine Godmother” and ...

If Giulia Tofana's confessions are to be believed, then the lethal potion maker is among the most prolific serial killers in history. Giulia Tofana was a 17th-century professional poisoner who sold ...

On August 23, 1989, 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins was fatally shot after being chased by up to 30 white youths in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn. In 1989, a Black teenager named Yusuf Hawkins ...

If his own confession before his brutal execution is to be believed, then Peter Niers slaughtered 544 people — 24 of which were pregnant women he killed for their fetuses. The legends of Peter Niers ...

Often described as spiritual messengers and attendants of God, Biblically accurate angels sometimes look very different from what you'd expect. In modern times, Biblical angels are almost always ...

What does it mean to be sane? How reliably can even medical professionals distinguish the sane from the insane? Psychologist Dr. David Rosenhan of Stanford University had long been interested in these ...

On Oct. 22, 2013, a ninth grader at Danvers High School in Massachusetts named Philip Chism did the unthinkable. At just 14, he brutalized his 24-year-old math teacher, Colleen Ritzer. The reportedly ...

On an otherwise normal day around 1150, residents of the English village of Woolpit made a startling discovery on the edge of town — two small children with green skin. Not only did the children look ...