In 1986, a minor 75-cent billing anomaly on a university computer network sparked the first documented hunt for an international cyber spy.

Medical history contains rare accounts of a phenomenon known as coffin birth, or postmortem fetal extrusion.

In 1984, leaders of the major narcotics syndicate in Colombia proposed an unprecedented deal to the national government.

For centuries, the famous stone statues dotting the coastline of Easter Island in the southeastern Pacific have puzzled archaeologists worldwide.

In November 1661, the birth of Charles II marked the arrival of the last Habsburg monarch to rule the Spanish Empire.

On October 3, 1955, a 69-foot (21.0 m) merchant vessel named the MV Joyita departed from Apia harbor in Samoa with twenty-five people on board.

In 2005, an underground street artist received an unusual business proposition.

Sixty miles north of New York City, a ruined Scottish-style fortress sits on an isolated island in the Hudson River.

For over five centuries, thousands of graduating university students solemnly swore an oath against a specific man.

In February 1959, nine experienced Soviet ski hikers cut their way out of their own tent and fled into the lethal minus 40-degree winds of the Ural Mountains.