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For centuries, Scottish monarchs were crowned while sitting or standing on a large, rectangular slab of red [...]

On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II. On that very same day, the two [...]

The 1995 movie The Usual Suspects won two Academy Awards — screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie won one [...]

For most of the latter half of the 20th century, the United States and the Soviet Union were leading [...]

The Pantheon, pictured above, is a mausoleum in Paris. Built starting in 1758 and completed in 1790, it is [...]

Yves Rossy is a pilot. Like most other pilots, he flies things. Unlike every other pilot — ever — [...]

Throughout the ages, governments have banned seemingly everything — other than death and taxes, or so [...]

The term “Death by Chocolate” usually refers to a dessert recipe — chocolate cake served [...]

When we think of the term “filibuster,” the definition that springs to mind is the political one, [...]

Joshua Milton Blahyi, pictured above, is a preacher living in Ghana who turned 40 years old on September 30, [...]