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.

In 2021, a multi-millionaire software engineer named Marcel LeBrun made a significant career change.

For Private Duncan MacFarlane, survival came down to a small book kept in his breast pocket.

Ruling the massive Roman Empire usually guaranteed a permanent place in the history books. Yet, one ruler vanished from every written document, completely forgotten for over fifteen centuries.

In 1963, a high school student decided to push the boundaries of human biology by completely abandoning sleep.