Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, “addressed to the inhabitants of America,” was a 47-page dynamo presenting the recently ...

So far, only two of the four lynx have been recaptured, leaving authorities scrambling across the snowy woods to find the ...

The royal treasures were stashed away at the beginning of World War II. Experts knew the trove existed, but previous attempts ...

1964 marked the government’s arrival to the non-smoking movement. A year after the top doctor’s announcement, American smokers arrived in stores to find their cigarette boxes stamped with a mandatory ...

A team of 16 scientists and support staffers spent four summers drilling through Antarctic ice until they finally reached bedrock. To accomplish their goal, they endured average temperatures of -25.6 ...