Learn more about Laura Clay, Charlotte Dupuy, Thomas Poe Cooper and other influential figures and moments in the city's ...

Writers have been naming their characters after real people for centuries. Oscar Wilde named his eponymous character Dorian ...

With the help of a tech start-up, the Madrid museum is enlisting technology to quantify large crowds in its artworks and ...

Perched on top of Santorini's sheer cliffs is a world-famous tourist industry worth millions. Underneath is the fizzing risk ...

The origins of the White House Easter Egg Roll trace back to the 1870s when families brought children to roll eggs on the U.S. Capitol grounds.

A set of 12 Lizzie Borden crime scene photographs dating back to 1892 was sold at the 65th annual New York International ...

A massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake has killed at least 1,650 people in Myanmar and Thailand, leaving the region reeling as rescuers pick through vast piles of rubble to find missing people.

Some of its most famous passengers were a top fashion designer, one of the wealthiest men in the world, and a British countess. Most of the well-known people on board were first-class passengers.

One popular drink that could be contributing to high cholesterol levels, without you knowing, is alcohol. Leading charity Age UK noted that 14 units of alcohol is the equivalent of: Six pints of ...

Although it’s not much to look at, the two-acre Tacoma Potter’s Cemetery — also called the Pierce County pauper cemetery — holds the bodies of more than 1,600 people laid to rest between the 1880s and ...

Feel the wind in your hair as you embark on a legendary road trip along a little country's entire western coastline taking in some of the best views in Europe.