Before Jimi Hendrix electrified the world with his guitar, he had a lesser-known life chapter in the U.S. Army.

Cruise ships, floating cities of leisure and entertainment, are equipped with an unexpected facility: a morgue.

In the heart of World War II, British citizens faced the terrifying reality of air raids. The government, seeking to protect its people, introduced the Morrison Shelter in 1941.

Jim Springer and Jim Lewis were identical twins separated at birth and adopted by different families in Ohio, unbeknownst to each other.

Marvin John Heemeyer, a welder and muffler repair shop owner in Granby, Colorado, found himself embroiled in a zoning dispute with the local authorities.

In the late 1960s, Italian engineer Giorgio Rosa devised a plan to construct an independent micro-nation.

In 1958, Mao Zedong, the leader of the People’s Republic of China, initiated the Great Leap Forward, a campaign aimed at rapidly transforming China from an agrarian society into a socialist society through rapid industrialization and collectivization.

In the early 20th century, filmmakers sought to create winter wonderlands on set. Asbestos, known for its fire-resistant properties and snow-like appearance, became an ideal solution.

In 1924, Hugo Gernsback, an influential figure in the development of science fiction as a genre, proposed the idea of the “Radio Police Automaton” in his magazine, “Science and Invention.”

When the atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, a Japanese White Pine bonsai, already over two centuries old, stood witness.