Women Also Set Sail on Viking Voyages
History.Com - Between the eighth and 11th centuries, the Vikings left modern day Norway, Denmark and Sweden on bloody voyages of conquest...
On This Day In History, 1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Receives the Nobel Peace Prize - Watch
Martin Luther King Jr. held his acceptance speech in the auditorium of the University of Oslo on 10 December 1964. Martin Luther King Jr....
On This Day In Music History - Beach Boys, Crosby Stills and Nash, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, Styx,
December 8th: On this day 1961, The Beach Boys first single 'Surfin' was released on Candix Records, a small label based in Los Angeles....
8 Things You May Not Know About Mark Twain
Ernest Hemingway once declared "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn.'… It's the...
10 Things You Should Know About Voltaire
History.Com - François-Marie Arouet, better known by his immortal pen name, Voltaire, was born on November 21, 1694, in Paris. In a...
On This Day In History - December 1, 1913 - Ford's assembly line starts rolling
History.Com - On this day in 1913, Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile....
Researchers have deciphered an ancient Egyptian handbook, revealing a series of invocations and spel
Ancient Egyptian handbook of spells deciphered Researchers have deciphered an ancient Egyptian handbook, revealing a series of...
On This Day In History - November 24, 1932 - The FBI Crime Lab opens its doors for business
FBI.Gov - Harrington Fitzgerald, Jr., a mental patient in a Pennsylvania veterans’ hospital more than one hundred miles away from his...
