In his crazed quest for male heirs, King Henry VIII of England famously married six women, the luckiest of whom was arguably

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A look at the rise and fall of one of history's most notorious figures - Caligula. Credit: Ancient Documentaries

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One of the largest living oak trees in the world, the Angel Oak, is a Southern live oak tree located in Angel Oak Park, on Jo

The skeletons were originally unearthed in 1578 in catacombs beneath Rome. They were then given to churches across Europe as

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When the skeletons of 450 Greek babies were first discovered at the bottom of a well in the middle of Athens in 1931, archaeo

Buried and frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the ancient Roman town of Pompeii, with its 11,000 peop

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On April 3, 1817 --- out of nowhere, a confused young lady suddenly showed up in Almondsbury, a small village few miles north

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