In 1960, a British man named David Latimer planted a spiderwort cutting in a large glass bottle.

Medieval castles are remembered for towers, walls, and moats—but they also contained one of the most unusual architectural features of their age: turret toilets.

In May 1996, Dr. Beck Weathers joined an expedition led by Rob Hall of Adventure Consultants to climb Mount Everest.

For nearly a thousand years, a practice shaped the lives, bodies, and futures of millions of Chinese women

In the 1920s, Soviet leaders sought a territory for concentrated Jewish settlement within the USSR. Their choice fell on Birobidzhan, a remote area in the Russian Far East along the Amur River, bordering China.

In July 1961, Arkhipov was executive officer on the K-19, a Hotel-class ballistic missile submarine, when a coolant system leak threatened a nuclear reactor meltdown.

On 13 April 1985, in the Swedish city of Växjö, photojournalist Hans Runesson captured an image that would travel around the world.

On 6 August 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a marine engineer for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, was finishing a three-month assignment in Hiroshima.

On April 16, 1788, New York City erupted into one of the first major riots in post-Revolutionary America, leaving as many as 20 dead.

Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, the youngest brother of Emperor Franz Joseph, was known in his family by the nickname “Luziwuzi.”