HISTORY

For some soldiers confined in German POW camps during World War II, ‘Monopoly’ was so much more than just a board game.

No aviation schools in America would teach Bessie Coleman how to fly in the 1920s. So, she sailed to France and became the first African American and the first Native American woman to earn a pilot's license.

For an island of only 24 square miles, Manhattan sure has a lot of neighborhoods. Many have distinct monikers that might not seem intuitive to the lay-tourist, or even to a lifelong New Yorker.

Without a Rosetta Stone for these centuries-old writing systems, the meaning of the texts may never be known.

For every speech, there are a bunch of versions that ended up on the writers' room floor. Here are 12 speeches that were written but, for a variety of reasons, never delivered.

Although there are a few distinctive beasts that are place-specific, many ghosts, fairies, and goblins pop up in similar forms across the various Celtic mythologies.

From Milli Vanilli to Mariah Carey and beyond.

Archaeologists used to think that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas some 13,500 years ago. The evidence from these ancient sites says otherwise.

‘Leonardo: The Musical: A Portrait of Love’ didn’t exactly soar on stage. But don’t blame the bird poop that helped get it there.

The complicated legal case involving salvage rights to the RMS ‘Titanic’ continues, 40 years after the famous shipwreck was rediscovered.

Hiking over several feet of snow becomes possible with some clever physics and nature-inspired design.

Asked to evaluate his son's abilities as an intellectual, the elder Edison said that he was, “absolutely illiterate, scientifically and otherwise.”