While parents today wouldn't dream of giving their child a game that included poison, Sky's Hazardous History reveals that ...

In November 1940, the British Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm executed a surprise attack on the Italian naval base at Taranto, reshaping naval warfare... The raid on Taranto would go on to inspire the ...

Queen Elizabeth II’s wedding dress sparkled with 10,000 tiny pearls and crystals stitched by hundreds of women in secrecy. Its ivory silk came from Scotland, and the 15-foot star-patterned train ...

1973: Illinois Gov. Dan Walker signed the Illinois Lottery into law, marking the 10th state in the contiguous United States ...

The award's history dates back to 1935, when the University of Chicago's Jay Berwanger won the inaugural award. Here's the full list of Heisman winners: Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter won the ...

This historic Alabama steakhouse still cooks every steak with the same timeless techniques perfected in the 1940s, keeping ...

1907: Albert A. Michelson, the first head of the physics department at the University of Chicago, won the first Nobel Prize ever presented to an American (though he was born in Prussia) in science.