Everybody thought El Chapo was safely locked up, until prison guards discovered his empty cell and a tunnel a mile long.
An error by one of the world's greatest scientists derailed Germany's effort to build an atomic bomb during WWII.
Miss USA Leona Gage seemed to be the ideal American woman, but in a matter of hours, her fairy tale victory unravelled in spectacular fashion.
Michael Romanoff claimed to be a member of Russia’s deposed Romanov royal family, but no one seemed to mind that he was no prince.
Fashion is one of the greatest forms of expression and a reflection of the times. Let's take a look at how American fashion has changed throughout the decades, from 1900s corsets and 20s flapper haircuts to hippie dresses and hipster glasses.
In her day she was a fashion icon and royal mistress, but it was her influence on one of France's greatest writers where she made her biggest mark.
Miss Cleo became the world’s most infamous psychic—but was she the victim or the villain in the scam that gripped America?
In public, the Victorians were some of the stuffiest, snobbiest, most repressed people in history. Behind closed doors, it was a different story. In private, Victorian England was rife with drink, debauchery, and scandal—and no one did it better than Queen Victoria's infamous son, King Edward VII.
Strong, intelligent, and best known as Queen Victoria’s African goddaughter, Sarah Forbes Bonetta led an extraordinary life. Her experiences, however, were far from idyllic. Born an African princess and captured as a slave, she was later raised as the queen’s ward in English high society. But if her time in England revealed anything, it’s that any cage, no matter how gilded, is still just a cage.
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