I don't know about you guys, but I'm a sucker for colorized antique photos and these 40 images of Wales from back in the Victorian Era are simply stunning. They really give you an idea of what life was like at that t...

One hundred years before the popularity of cell phones, “text messages” were popular with bored telegraph operators who would message their counterparts on the other side of the country. While we take it for granted...

With the scandal unfolding in Britain we see jus...  ...list of some of the most powerful media moguls in history . My favorite is Joseph Pulitzer (pictured).  You...

One hundred years ago, women in Britain who wanted to vote were considered terrorists. Many were jailed, and although Scotland Yard wanted to record them in photographs, the women refused to cooperate. So in 1912, offici...

Did you hear the one about the state that tried to make pi equal to 3.2 -by law? It's not a joke. It happened in Indiana in 1897. The story of the “Indiana pi bill” starts with Edward J. Goodwin, a Solitude, Indiana...

In 1971, psychology professor Philip Zimbardo began an experiment that became known as the Stanford Prison Experiment. Students were randomly assigned to be "guards" or "prisoners" in an imaginary prison scenario. It sho...

The following is an article from The Best of the B...  ...s tribe was probably conquered by the Roman army - history 's a little unclear on this- because he became a R...

Photographer William Carrick and his partner John MacGregor traveled throughout Russia between 1857 and 1878 taking portraits of Russians of all stations and occupations. These pictures form an ethnographic overview of R...

Walter Freeman was one of the biggest proponents of the "ice pick" lobotomy, performing more than 3,000 during his lifetime. He's one of the ten most dangerous doctors to have ever lived and you can read more about h...

I'm sure you guys all are familiar with the Scope's Monkey Trial, but did you know that the whole thing was actually just an overblown publicity stunt to help attract travelers to visit the town of Dayton, Tennessee?...