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Get to know the pony-riding, eel-eating, cave-dwelling rogue who became Scotland's most famous king.

Advances in DNA technology have made it possible to identify previously unknown victims.

The story of how a swashbuckling duck became a sergeant with honors in the United States Marine Corps.

Hester Pulter broke convention—and the expectations of her gender and class—by writing about science and politics.

"The war to end war" finally ends.

Central Europe fragments while Germany sees the final throes of battle.

Among the American Revolution's many heroes, Crispus Attucks is immortalized as the "first to defy, the first to die."

The Central Powers are close to giving up.

Germany and its allies face defeat, with Allied victories including American Meuse-Argonne Offensive

Lawrence of Arabia returns.

Here's everything you need to know about the last major engagement in the War of 1812.

The ships moored together and formed a micronation. (It might as well have been an adult summer camp.)

The Spanish flu epidemic sweeps ever more lethally through war-torn Europe.

Could Texas ever be returned to Mexico? In 1917, Germany tried.

In 1830, King William I of Netherlands celebrated his birthday with an opera. The performance would help destroy his country.

The attempted assassination of the Bolshevik leader set off a campaign of extreme violence.

Take a tour of Belfast's eeriest works of public art.

Anne Frank was captured by the Nazis on this date in 1944.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened.

By splitting the French and British near Amiens and pushing the latter into the sea, there was still a chance Germany could win the war