Hawker Demons fly low over 180,000 spectators in the enclosure reserved for those who have come by car at the annual RAF Display held at...

Alice Pleasance Liddell (4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934) was the fourth child of Henry and Lorina Liddell, early in her childhood, she was...

Dolls dolls aren’t necessarily the finest fodder for nightmares, but there’s something a little creepy about old dolls. Scratch that, the...

Virginia Oldoïni, Countess of Castiglione (22 March 1837 – 28 November 1899), better known as La Castiglione, was born to an aristocratic...

Ronald Walken was born on March 31, 1943 in Astoria, New York to a Scottish Immigrant from Glasgow and a German immigrant from...

In the middle decades of 20th century Germany, two polar bears came to Berlin Zoo. Many families go to the zoo to see the bears, they're...

In 1923, Los Angeles Times newspaper owner and real estate investor, Harry Chandler was looking for a way to advertise a new segregated...

In the early 1970s, two members of New York rock band Wicked Lester, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, struck out to start a new group named...

The Terra Nova Expedition, officially called the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between...

Mary Agnes Shanley was born into an Irish-American family in 1896, after immigrating to America with her family, she made her choice to...

Though the 8,848 meters high summit of Mount Everest was first conquered on foot by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary in 1953, but it was...

After World War II, coercion to recognize, challenge, and change inequalities for minorities grew. One of the most notable challenges to...

Pasta, the most famous staple of Italian cuisine, was first recorded in Sicily back in the 12th century; a few centuries after Arab...

In the 1930s and 1940s, An English motorist John Rhodes Cobb smashed a number of land speed records. Cobb was three times holder of the...

Wallace G. Levison was a chemist, inventor, and lecturer who founded the Departments of Mineralogy and Astronomy at the Brooklyn...

In 1966, Franca Voila became the first Italian woman to challenge the country's cultural convention refusing a "rehabilitating marriage"...

Some time before around 1623 a dying man of aged 60, questioned on his deathbed about his faith in Christian, describing the soul as ‘a...

During the British colonial rule over Africa in the late 19th and early 20th century, the British aspired to find various methods of...

The lady in the picture with the mirror held above her head was Mrs. Edna Egbert from the 1940s. The photographer caught her in the ready...

The Delhi Durbar meaning "Court of Delhi" was an Indian imperial-style mass assembly organized by the British at Coronation Park, Delhi,...