Several actors who portrayed the iconic Marlboro Man have died from tobacco-related illnesses.

Dr. Henry Holmes was a serial killer who built a hotel of horrors dubbed the “Murder Castle” in Chicago in the 1890s.

From October of 1831 to October of 1836, a Royal Navy ship named the HMS Beagle was engaged in a historic voyage of exploration and discovery. On this celebrated voyage, the famous naturalist Charles Darwin collected several specimens of Galapagos tortoises, and among these were three specific tortoises destined to be remembered....

“Youth is wasted on the young,” according to Oscar Wilde. Perhaps that is because the value of youth is not realized until it has past. It is the old man and old woman who long for youth, desiring their past physical prowess to complement knowledge and wisdom attained with age and experience....

Weddings are events steeped in tradition, but these traditions have changed or lost their meanings with the ravages of time. Here are four wedding customs that for one reason or another are no longer as they once were.

The following traditions involving death were once commonly observed in the United States and elsewhere in the English-speaking world. While you may find the occasional instance of one of these traditions being practiced today, they are mostly relegated to history.

Growing up in the Ozarks, the James brothers have the added distinction for me of being local legends. Jesse James and his brother Frank were members of Quantrill’s Raiders, a Confederate bushwhacker group during the Civil War. After the Civil War ended, the brothers formed various criminal gangs which engaged in robbery...

Although Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, his final burial didn’t occur until 1901, and only after his coffin had been moved and opened several times.