Happy 80th birthday to Burt Reynolds. The Hollywood star and romancer might never have become an actor had he not been injured as a star football player at Florida State University. He ended up in an English class where his...

Alexander Hamilton was many things—a bastard from the Caribbean, the founder of the Bank of New York, the father of the US Coast Guard, and the first Secretary of the Treasury, to name a few. But the man who died in a duel against Aaron Burr at the age...

Today is the first day of Black History Month in the U.S., a day when some pretty savvy college kids made history 56 years ago. Today’s youth would say these guys had game. On February 1, 1960, four black students from North...

A newly deciphered clay tablet from ancient Babylon has science writers buzzing because it just might "rewrite the history of mathematics," as Live Science puts it. The tablet shows that Babylonians were using sophisticated...

Daniel Uria BERLIN, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The initial 4,000 copies of the new annotated version of Hitler's Mein Kampf sold out since being released in German bookstores last week.