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This all-female, the real Peaky Blinders, gang tormented London at the beginning of the 20th century.

One man had been warning about Madoff's scheme for years: Harry Markopolos.

Francis Galton, an English scientist, was the founder of the pseudoscience of eugenics. Eugenics is the study of improving the genetic quality of the human race by selective breeding.

Hans Steininger, a historical figure from the town of Braunau am Inn, Austria, is known for an unusual and tragic death - he was killed by his own beard.

Dr. William Chester Minor's life is stranger than fiction. That an American surgeon came to be one of the largest contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is surprising.

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He actually excelled....

Another myth debunked....

He took the create and even won an Oscar for creating Mickey

Sigmund Freud remains one of history's best-known psychoanalysts, and his theory that the unconscious part of the human mind can drive action and behavior is still influential. One very specific way it's influential is its use in advertising, public relat...

After masterminding September 11th, the deadliest terrorist attack in history, bin Laden spent a decade successfully evading a global coalition. He was eventually tracked down and killed at a safe house in Pakistan in 2011, but not before he unleashed a v...

In 1874, Jesse Pomeroy became the youngest person ever convicted of first-degree murder in Massachusetts. He was only 14 years old, but his crimes were horrific, violent, and bloody, and he would spend the rest of his life in jail before dying in 1932.

Captain Morgan – famous today as the face of a brand of spiced rum. But who was he? Pirate? Privateer? Politician?

Trapped in black and white, historical figures often seem just that — historical. But colorized portraits remind us that these famous people from the past were real human beings with hopes, fears, and dreams. However, adding color to historical photos is...

In 1908 — about a century before the iPhone — inventor Nikola Tesla mused about creating a device "no bigger than a watch" that would allow someone to hear "music or song [or] the speech of a political leader" and transfer "any picture, character, drawing...

Death by boiling stands apart from other methods of execution