You may recall the famous photograph known as "Migrant Mother", taken by Dorothea Lange of Florence Owens Thompson and her children in 1936. It was used over the years to illustrate the Great Depression. Thompson was a m...

It must be hard being the lesser-known sibling of one of the world’s greatest painters, or authors, or minds. On a larger scale, I bet it’s like going through high school as the younger sibling of a brother who was...

A fan of I Can Has Cheezburger sent them this delightful postcard he found in an antique store. The print is from 1905.  The grammar may have been nicer back then, but those poor LOL Kitties are have been being denied...

There are places more remote, but Tristan Da Cunha is inhabited, even though the 270 residents only see a mail ship once a year! When Napoleon was sent to St. Helena by the British, they annexed the closest chain of isl...

History is full of medical horror stories you've never he...

Ah, misogyny, one of the final frontiers of terrible, terrible inequalities in our society. It's amazing that only in the 60's sexism was so prevailent in advertising. Sometimes you see ads these days and think how preju...

Right up there with "Who did Cain from the Bible marry after Abel died?" (hint: it was one of his sisters), the question of "What happened to Hitler's descendants (if there are any)?" has dogged historians for decades. N...

Ever since I read The Other Boleyn Girl a couple y...  ...ys was probably one of the shortest reigns in the history of the monarchy, and while that's true, it's by f...

The history of computing spans thousands of years - from the...  ...rototype and plans for the calculator was lost to history until the 20th century, when the machine's design...  ...1960s.Konrad Zuse's Z3 Computer (photo: Computer History Museum)Neat facts: Zuse also created th...

Here's an interesting bit of editing from creator Ye Li to the tune of Billy Joel's hit song We Didn't Start the Fire. Link...