While searching Flickr for garden photos to counter a winter's gloom, I encountered this rather startling image, labelled "Tea House, Kew Gardens, destroyed by suffragettes." For me the photo and story are...

Last weekend I stopped into Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum in Farmington Hills, MI. I first heard of this mesmerizing monstrosity on one of my favorite websites: roadsideamerica.com. This was not my first visit to...

In a new book, an Argentine historian asserts that Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele is responsible for the astonishing rate of twins in Candido Godoi, Brazil. Jorge Camarasa makes the claim that Mengele ministered to both huma...

The History Bluff has a clue in the title of the site: it's a...  ...t's all made up! The tagline is "Making a mess of history ." Here's a sample story: Few heroes are as legen...  ...o have shot an apple off of his son’s head. The History Bluff tells the forgotten tale of Wi...

What we now take for granted many people once took for granted could never work.The lightbulb. The telephone. Email. If you’re a specialist in your field, there are two ways to become a household name: create something...

Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Zelle, an exotic dancer who was lured into the spy business during World War I. The French, who recruited her, suspected her of being a double agent and sentenced her to death....

Volcanos are the most dangerous type of natural...  ...t each of the ten deadliest eruptions in recorded history . To give you an idea, the AD79 eruption of Mount...

Back on December 24, 1968 the crew of the Apollo 8...  ...e crew of the Apollo 8 space mission were to make history for two things. They were the first human beings...

Egyptologists worked for over a year to produce a digital 3D recreation of the face of Cleopatra, using ancient artifacts combined with modern imaging technology. The result is a beautiful face of mixed ethnicity. Dr A...

Wired celebrates the 40th anniversary of the unveiling of the first computer mouse on December 9th, 1968. Computer scientist Douglas Engelbart kicks off the personal computer revolution with a product demonstration tha...