Shipwreck remains have intrigued me since the firs...  ...gists say the wreck could be that of a two-masted Civil War schooner that ran aground in 1862 or another ship...  ...past the U.S. Navy and into Mobile Bay during the Civil War . [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="3...

The Five Hoaxes That Fooled the World post from a...  ...17Journalist H.L. Mencken was tired of all of the war -talk and death toll counts of WWI, so he decided...  ...re) who claimed he witnessed this very thing on a Civil War battlefield. Apparently there was a house very c...

Contrary to the old adage, crime really d...  ...d when police found two gold bars, still warm , under his sofa. (Photo: BBC)2. Pablo Escobar (19...  ...fence" (buyer and seller of stolen goods) in post- Civil War New York. From 1862 to 1882, she's estimated to h...

The following is reprinted from The Best...  ...ute.Origin: Although occasionally used before the Civil War , its widespread popularity can probably be traced...  ...ent generations, there were no incubators and few warm hen houses. That meant chicks couldn't be raised...  ...time. Origin: The phrase was born i...

It happens with almost every President – people...  ...st Virginia, owning a whiskey distillery when the Civil War broke out. The Berkeley Border Guards ended up s...

Almost every aspect of war spawns new words, and, over time, many of them sl...  ...erors, and skedaddle signified retreat during the Civil War . And if you're ever had a snafu ("Situation Norma...  ...With each passing conflict, the list of pacified war words gets longer...

Memorial Day is more than just a 3 day w...  ...e to the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War , in which some 620,000 soldiers on both sides die...  ...me month, up in Carbondale, Ill., 219 Civil War veterans marched through town in memo...

Pablo Picasso was commissioned by the Spanish gove...  ...ny bombing of Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The result is Guernica, a black and whit...  ...nting that depicts the suffering and brutality of war .Fast forward to 2008, where Lena Gieseke turned P...

I admit it: I'm an adult (although I suppose that...  ...gelf (taller than a tree), rhythm guitarist Toki Wartooth (not a Bumblebee) and bassist William Murderface...  ...ammett of Metallica; Jeff Loomis, Steve Smyth and Warrel Dane of Nevermore; as well as members of Canniba...  ...band; andDepantsification...

Genealogists Christopher Child and Gary Boyd Rober...  ...British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, and Civil War General Robert E. Lee. Hillary Clinton is related...