In Gladiator, director Ridley Scott created a swords-and-sandals epic that was half-history and half-fiction, and that ...

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It might seem astonishing that so much political energy could be consumed by what came to be known as the Petticoat Affair, which began in 1829 when members of Andrew Jackson’s cabinet and their wives ...

History, Mark Twain is said to have declared, doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes. As Democrat and current vice president Kamala Harris and Republican former president Donald Trump run for ...

The fauna of Africa was in for a rude awakening when 26th president Theodore Roosevelt left office in 1909. That year he embarked on a year-long hunting and collecting trip with his son Kermit, ...

First produced in Germany, the cheap (but not-so-cheerful, as we’ll discover) Frozen Charlotte dolls gained immense popularity across Europe and in the United States. From the mid-19th century until ...

The earthquake that hit Lisbon in 1755 was one of the deadliest in history. The Portuguese capital was almost completely destroyed, and some estimates put the death toll at 100,000 people. Later, the ...

Did you know the Sovereign is one of the world’s oldest coins still in production today? In fact, Sovereign coins were first struck for Tudor kings more than 500 years ago, before the modern version ...