In May 1845, two British ships — HMS Erebus and HMS Terror — set sail from Greenhithe, England, with 134 men on board. Their mission was to chart the fabled Northwest Passage.

Born enslaved in Saint-Domingue on 20 May 1743, François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture became the most prominent military and political leader of the Haitian Revolution.

On the night of 11 March 1944, thick smoke poured from a chimney at 21 Rue Le Sueur in Paris. Neighbours complained of the stench.

Before dawn on February 12, 2014, security alarms at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, signaled trouble.

Every 26 seconds, Earth shakes. The movement is too subtle for people to feel, yet sensitive instruments around the world register it like clockwork.

He introduced Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre, a supposedly 18th-century French scientist born in 1716, as the man behind the litre.

Step into a basement in East London and you’ll find a collection that seems to defy logic. Pickled animal parts, preserved body fragments, celebrity memorabilia, occult objects, and natural oddities fill every corner.

On August 29, 2021 an unknown car stopped at a farmhouse in Buhuşi, Romania. A 93 year old man stepped out in the same clothes he had worn when he left home thirty years earlier.

For centuries, left-handedness has been treated as something dangerous, deviant, or in need of correction.

Long before humans split the atom, a self-sustaining nuclear reactor quietly ran beneath the ground in what is now Gabon.