People

We all know people who seem to be accomplished in their every pursuit. So it's especially interesting to read a 2017 British study that drills into the ten attributes that make people extra good at what they do. And they all have a few…

At the beginning of the 1960s, few predicted that a massive youth culture revolution was about to occur. In the 1950s, one of the very few major counter-cultural forces in America was the beatniks, a group of jazz and poetry-loving…

Around the world, 1969 was a year for the ages: the Vietnam War reached its bloody peak, the United States took a giant leap for mankind and safely landed astronauts on the moon, and a youth-driven counterculture emerged that would come to…

Twenty years ago the Russian president Boris Yeltsin appointed his fourth prime minister in less than 18 months: Vladimir Putin, then a relatively unknown security services chief with scant experience of politics. Few could have predicted…

Japan has marked 74 years since a US atomic bomb attack that razed the city of Hiroshima to the ground at the end of World War II. Around 50,000 people, including representatives from around the world, attended on Tuesday a ceremony held…

Thousands of El Paso residents went to a baseball diamond in Ponder Park to pay tribute to the victims of Saturday’s mass shooting in Texas. And less than 24 hours after a masked gunman opened fire in Dayton, Ohio, hundreds of people…

Women have achieved many astonishing "firsts." Some firsts are first-ever accomplishments by either a woman or a man; some are firsts by a woman in a male-dominated field. Read on for more!

Human disappearances have been happening for centuries, leaving the people around them and many future generations grappling with questions of what, exactly, happened. Here are 8 cases of unsolved disappearances and missing people that…

Although not as well-known as the Battles of Midway or Iwo Jima, the Battle of Guadalcanal played a key role in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The six-month-long Guadalcanal Campaign took place on and around the island of…

During the week of July 17, 1955, Walt Disney’s new theme park, named “Disneyland,” opened to the public in Anaheim, California. The 17th, a Sunday, was intended to be an “international press preview,” limited to selected invitees…