:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/MonaLisa-56a48bfd3df78cf77282edcb.jpg "On this day in 1911, a man walks into the Louvre... and walks out with the Mona Lisa")
Today marks 110 years since the theft of one of humanity’s most beloved treasures, the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. As I’m sure you’ve noticed, the Mona Lisa did return to her rightful place in the Louvre — but not until two years ...
In the midst of the crisis in Afghanistan, it’s hard to believe that the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom ended just 11 years ago with our current president serving as vice president to Barack Obama. President Obama left some 50,000 ...
World War II was one of the deadliest and most destructive wars in history, not in small part due to the atomic bombing of Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devastating loss of life led to Japan’s near-immediate surrender to ...
Taken literally, the biblical account of the story of the Star of Bethlehem calls for not one, but two “stars.” One to be seen at the start of the Magi’s journey, while the other appearing to them upon their arrival ...
Screaming, Katharina Kepler was locked inside a small windowless room and charged with witchcraft after her terrifying abduction from her own bed. The evidence for her alleged magical misdoings? Being the mother of one Johannes Kepler, one of the greatest ...
Braveheart: one of the most epic films, right up there with Lonesome Dove when it comes to weeping quietly into manly glasses of whiskey. Starring Mel Gibson as William Wallace, a late-13th-century Scottish warrior, Braveheart has captured our imaginations since its release in 1995. There’s ...
This event is still cited in Korea as proof the United States can’t be trusted with Korea’s sovereignty. It’s referred to by its discoverer as “President Roosevelt’s Secret Pact with Japan.” But all that happened was a conversation between Defense ...
In 1959, US Vice President Richard Nixon traveled to the capital of America’s communist arch-enemy, the Soviet Union. He was there to visit an American exhibition being held in the city; a house had been built as a set that ...
July 22, 1991: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, police officers spot Tracy Edwards running down the street in handcuffs, and upon investigation, they find one of the grisliest scenes in modern history… Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment. When police went back to Dahmer’s apartment, he ...
According to Neal Gabler’s book Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, an estimated 70 million people — in a country of 165 million — tuned in to watch the unveiling of Disneyland co-hosted by actor and future president Ronald ...