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Some companies are profiting off of mugshots - posting them on the internet for sale
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Computer programmers are expected to be male and antisocial - an self-fulfilling prophecy that forgets the women that the entire field was built upon
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Seven months before he shot President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald tried to kill Major General Edwin Walker
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While the rise of agriculture allowed human populations to blossom, it also opened the door for catastrophic collapses
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Proto Indo-European is thought to be the precursor to many Indian, Asian and European languages
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In A.D. 1257 a massive volcano erupted, spreading ash all over the world. The problem is that scientists have no idea where the eruption happened
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As if that wasn't bad enough, Lysol isn't even an effective contraceptive
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Funding gaps didn't always bring a shut down of the federal government
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Today, people can get their old creepy robot fix on the internet. But there was once a whole museum devoted to old bots
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Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent's missing heart still has not been found, but archeologists searching for it did discover a lost, ancient Ottoman town
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The U.S. Postal Service owes the man who sculpted the Korean War memorial nearly $685,000
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China says it's purchased 3 million hectares of Ukrainian farming land, but Ukraine says it has no intention of selling land to China
North Carolina was saved from nuclear devastation by one little switch
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Lots of people, lots of exits, lots of packages--a few of the reasons why shopping malls are targeted
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Lox didn't originate in New York City. Nor did bagels. But putting them together, that is a distinctly New York Creation
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Amidst an ongoing military crackdown, Egypt bans the Muslim Brotherhood
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This engraved infographic from 1871 shows the major events of the Revolutionary War, and some beautiful subtle additions
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Lego platforms propped the sarcophagus in place from the inside, allowing the researchers to work on the ancient materials without fear of collapse
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Google has teemed with the Halo Trust, a non-profit that works to remove land mines and other unexploded ordinances that often linger after a conflict ends
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A three minute video shows 1000 years of European conquest
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