When a cache of Iron Age metalwork emerged from Swedish soil, it did more than add a few glittering artifacts to museum ...

Before it was set in November, the Thanksgiving holiday bounced across calendars for years, and was almost entirely forgotten ...

In the US in the late 1880s, La Belle Glass Company developed what became known as Ivory or Custard glass by increasing the concentration of uranium oxide, which made the effect more opaque.

From bizarre accidents to strange illnesses, history is filled with shocking and bizarre deaths that are hard to believe. In ...

Claire Messud, the bestselling author of "The Emperor's Children," returns with "This Strange Eventful History" (W.W. Norton), a multi-generational story of family secrets spanning World War II to the ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

1980. The start of the decade. It was a totally rad decade that was filled with many changes to our culture. From the rise of Ronald Reagan to the tragic ending of John Lennon, the year 1980 would see ...

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