Other memorable names from the Golden Age of Hollywood include Cary Grant, James Stewart, James Dean, Gregory Peck, Grace ...

Winters (in real life blond, but played by the red-haired Damian Lewis in the TV show), was born on January 21, 1918, in New ...

Some say everything is bigger in Texas, and they’re right — at least when it comes to ancient fauna. According to Smithsonian Magazine, a new analysis from the University of Austin revealed that the ...

Months after its sale, the most expensive piece of artwork ever sold is having its attribution called into question. The $450 million painting titled Salvator Mundi, is believed to be the work of ...

After reading about the coin hoard in Poland uncovered by a father and son, discover the story of the Defenestration of ...

To many, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy seemed like a princess in a fairy tale. She was tall, beautiful, blonde, and — as of 1996 — married to John F. Kennedy Jr., the dashing son of John F. Kennedy. But ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it blanketed the Roman city of Pompeii in ash, freezing the area and its residents in time. And in the last few centuries, archaeologists have continuously ...

The story of Alcatraz prisoner Neil McCauley is so extraordinary that it inspired a Hollywood film. The 1995 movie Heat stars Robert DeNiro as McCauley, a professional thief who agrees to plan one ...

Robert Stroud was unlike most of the other Alcatraz prisoners on this list. He was not a gangster, nor was he involved in racketeering of any kind. Instead, Stroud was simply a cold-blooded killer.

Between 1934 and 1963, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was one of the most feared prisons in the United States. Its location in the middle of San Francisco Bay, surrounded by rough, frigid water, made ...

George “Machine Gun” Kelly was a Tennessee gangster who got his nickname from his favorite weapon, the Thompson submachine gun. During Prohibition, Kelly was a notorious bootlegger, but his most ...