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Fred H. Smith a physical anthropologist at Loyola University in Chicago who has been studying Neanderthal DNA says that neanderthals "were believed to be scavengers who made primitive tools and w…

When you look at this photo, what do you see?

On October 30, 1938, millions of New Yorkers supposedly had the shock of their lives, while listening to Orson Welles ' The War of the Worlds broadcast where he announced that the U.S. was being inva…

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is an international memorial day on 27 January commemorating the victims of the Holocaust.

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New Yor…

In 1937, comic acrobat Joseph Späh survived the Hindenburg airship disaster by jumping out of the window.

The first fatal car accident in the UK was caused by a driver going at 4 mph (6.5 kph).

The historical timeline you keep in your head is all messed up!

You may have thought 1980s perms were huge but Georgian ladies* were the mistresses of big hair.

During medieval times, very little was known about the human body and how it worked, because it was illegal to cut open a human body.

On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan’s surrender to the United States.

Quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests.

In the mid-17th century, a wave of religious reform transformed the way in which Christmas was celebrated in England.