In 1923, the stunned crowd at the Belmont Park horse circuit watched as Sweet Kiss crossed the finish the line at the head of the pack. At 20 to 1 odds to win that day, it was shock, though not ...

In the early hours of November 5th, 1983, two divers were laying down to rest in a decompression chamber off the coast of Norway. They were part of the Byford Dolphin‘s diving team. The Dolphin was part of the Norwegian ...

Fathered by the Duke of Vazul and one of his pagan concubines in Hungry circa 1016 CE, Béla I’s life began inauspiciously. The middle child of three boys, he and his brothers were forced to leave Hungry after their father’s ...

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin was born into wealth and intellect. Eventually adapting the stage name Molière, he became a playwright famous for his comedies. One-shot productions, they were intended as diversions to cleanse the palate and were staged directly following the conclusion ...

Sigurd Eysteinsson earned his nickname, Sigurd the Mighty, when he led the Vikings to war against northern Scotland. His conquest started around 872 CE, shortly after his brother gave him the title, Earl of Orkney. A small island chain at ...

February 19, 1994, Gloria Ramirez was rushed into an emergency room at approximately 8:15. Suffering from an advanced case of cervical cancer, she was delirious and her heart rate had dipped far below the sixty beats-per-minute a person needs to ...

At the end of the 1970s, a burst of technology, propelled by advances in computer circuitry, made the future the 50s had promised more than a waning pipe dream. Crude electronic interfaces appeared on the faces of washing machines and ...

Civilized society has presented mankind with a peculiar problem. Our instincts are wired for life as beasts; consume what is there, because tomorrow it will be gone. Throughout history, some have taken this maxim to its most filling, logical extreme. ...

Death, in any context, sends out a volatile ripple that shakes everyone it touches to their core. It is the root of all fears, and the most inexplicable and disturbing part of the human experience. No death is ordinary. A ...