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Is there really life after death? For devout Spiritualist Thomas Lynn Bradford there was only one way to prove the existence of the...

Take a quick glance at the Clash’s 1982 album Combat Rock and you’ll see photographer Pennie Smith’s image of four men standing together,...

Jamerson is the Schoenberg of getting from the I chord to the IV chord. He’s algorithmically generating a new pattern every phrase…[He]...

History has taught us that the combination of a thirst for knowledge and personal sacrifice is the most powerful force behind some of the...

Today, the Donner Party is virtually synonymous with one thing: cannibalism. But while most have heard about the gruesome tale of the...

“It was well known that there was at least one strong Jewish underground unit that had been working ceaselessly since the end of the war...

In 1946, the Surrealist artist created a short film with Walt Disney that didn’t see the light of day for 58 years It’s difficult to...

In the aptly named Supreme Court case of Loving v. Virginia, interracial marriage was legalized freeing millions of Americans to legally...

Over the course of his life, Dick Gregory has been known as a writer, comedian, pitchman and social activist. He was born on October 12,...

The QI trio of John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller have compiled a book called “2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks”. And here...

King Zog I of Albania rarely made public appearances. He only trusted his mother to make his food for fear of poisoning. The paranoid...

Robert E. Cornish (December 21, 1903 – March 6, 1963) was an American biologist and writer, best known for his resuscitation experiments....

Baby Soft was born in 1974. The company that brought it to market, Menley & James, an imprint of the pharmaceutical bigwig Smith & Kline,...

David A. Noebel is an evangelical Christian leader and the founder of Summit Ministries. In the mid 1960s Noebel wrote several pamphlets...

An interior view of the bombed library at Holland House with readers apparently choosing books regardless of the damage. Photographed in...

Cecil Beaton had only one shoot with Marilyn Monroe, which took place at the Ambassador Hotel in New York in February 1956. The actress...

A chart published in 1959, which was shared by the LA Times blog, illustrating how women’s bodies were judged in the Miss Universe...

Alberta Jones was born on November 12, 1930, to Sarah (Sadie) Frances Crawford and Odell Jones, in Louisville, Kentucky. Jones attended...

Violet Jessop was an ocean liner stewardess and nurse who is known for surviving the disastrous sinkings of both the RMS Titanic and her...

Starting out his life in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta, Tagore was a polymath, poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright,...

A set of pictures of Mexicans purportedly arrested for homosexuality in 1935. It belongs to the collection of the National Photo Library...

The third king of Saudi Arabia, Faisal, who is the son of the founder of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz, was assassinated on...

As he lay dying on this day, the great French writer Voltaire noticed that the lamp next to his bed was violently flickering and flaring...

Nobody was more qualified than Paul Deschanel to be President of France. But after achieving his ultimate ambition a series of bizarre...