List of All Articles with Tag 'history'

Chandrayaan-3 was dormant during lunar night, but the extreme cold could have harmed its batteries.

Discover whether you are guilty of maleficium and/or would have been accused of practicing witchcraft according to the laws and evidence used during the 1692 Salem Witch Trials.

Here are the nuts and bolts about Mary Shelley's 200-year-old tale about what can go wrong when people play God.

These stories need no contrivances to create places that are lonely and old, a place where bad things are kept hushed up instead of dealt with.

The memorial remembers five men who were on a Canadian Wellington Bomber that crashed in Broomfield.

Clichés are viewed as a sign of lazy writing, but they didn’t develop that reputation over night.

The history of pizza is a large pie—half Margherita and half lies. Let’s take a bite out of pizza’s past, covering styles from Neapolitan and New York to Sicilian and St. Louis and beyond.

Anyone with a cat will probably argue that their feline is the coolest—but there have been at least a few other candidates through the ages, from Able Seacat Simon to Abraham Lincoln’s kitties to the feline that inspired Nikola Tesla.

A nepo baby, or nepotism baby, is a famous or notable figure descended from another famous person or affluent family of some kind. In this episode of List Show, host Erin McCarthy lists 18 nepo babies from history, from Charlie Chaplin to Pericles.

We’re currently living in the year 1725, not 2023. At least, that’s what adherents of the Phantom Time Hypothesis would have you believe. The historical conspiracy theory alleges that the years spanning from 614 to 911 CE never actually happened.

“10-4” isn’t any quicker than saying “OK.” But it is a storied trucker tradition.

Danelo Cavalcante has stolen a rifle from a homeowner, who fired shots at the prowling prison fugitive.