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His story inspired several writers to base characters on him, but Neal Cassady's life hardly needed embellishment.

Some West Africans' DNA linked to unknown "ghost species" ancestor, evidence of medieval coffin birth uncovered, painting worth millions found after decades in a closet.

The tumultuous relationships of Evelyn Nesbit proved to be disastrous.... and deadly.

It turns out the hidden painting was done by famed artist Otto van Veen, once hung in the Met, and is worth millions of dollars.

The Kailasa Temple was carved over dozens of years, under several rulers, out of a single piece of stone.

The artist claims that the performance wasn't even cannibalism, and instead was a metaphor for self-destructive consumerism.

New research shows that what was previously thought of simply as dark smudges on 5,000-year-old mummies are actually the world's oldest tattoos.

The Colossus of Rhodes stood for just 54 years, but its legacy lasted far longer than that.

After John Callahan was paralyzed following a drunken car crash, he learned to draw cartoons with both hands, went to rehab, and had is politically incorrect cartoons published in dozens of magazines and newspapers.

The illustrator said his cartoons of the Rube Goldberg Machine were a “symbol of man’s capacity for exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimal results.”

Teachers said he didn’t draw enough heads and experts note that he copied traditional paintings rather than create his own work.