AP photojournalist Horst Faas took this iconic photo on June 18, 1965, during the Vietnam War with the 173rd Airborne Brigade Battalion on…
“Politruk” Alexey Yeremenko leads his men into combat, armed with a Tokarev TT-33. He was killed minutes after this photo was taken. Khorosheye,…
What are Skinwalkers, the shapeshifting witches of Navajo lore, and are they actually real? Inside the mystery of these mythical beasts. The legend…
Zzyzx was founded by a con artist in the 1940s as a spa where he could peddle his quack remedies — and its…
Billed as a human-orangutan hybrid, Julia Pastrana made her stage debut in 1854. Though she eventually fell in love and got married, her…
Katharine Woolley (1888-1945) was a highly controversial figure. She is often remembered as the wife of the famous Leonard Woolley, rather than for…
The rock drawings of Valcamonica are prehistoric petroglyphs carved in the glacier-polished, grey-purple Permian sandstone of the Camonica valley that extends for 90…
Location of Gonur Depe and Gonur Long before Merv raised its first tower, Bronze Age villages were assembling along the Murgab River in…
Of all the Stoneworks of Asuka, the Rock Ship of Masuda is the most unusual and largest of all. Image credit: Saigen Jiro/Wikimedia…
Aloha Airlines’ Boeing 737-297, N73711. 28 April 1988: Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737-297 airliner, FAA registration N73711, named Queen Liliuokalani ,…