Betty Gore and Candy Montgomery met at church and soon became best friends — but when Gore confronted Montgomery about having an affair with her husband in 1980, Montgomery struck her with an axe 41 times.

In 1605, Guy Fawkes and 12 other English conspirators tried to assassinate King James I by blowing up Parliament. But just before the explosion was supposed to happen, Fawkes got caught red-handed.

Also known as the Catherine wheel, or simply the wheel, the breaking wheel crushed the limbs and bones of the condemned, sometimes over the course of several days.

On September 13, 1996, hip-hop star Tupac Shakur died six days after being shot by an unknown gunman in Las Vegas. He was just 25 years old.

From 1985 until the mid-2000s, Blockbuster was the place to be on a Friday night — but the age of mail-order DVDs and streaming services quickly forced the company to declare bankruptcy and close almost all of its stores by 2014.

Richard Marcinko led SEAL Team Six like a “mafioso,” and his personal flaws contributed to the special operation unit's DNA as much as his successes did.

Previous research suggested humans began regularly eating snails at the end of the last Ice Age, but new evidence shows the practice may have been put in place much earlier.

According to centuries-old folklore, La Lechuza has the face of an old woman atop the body of an owl and she preys on drunk men and children in the dead of night.

Using gravitational lensing, astronomers were able to closely observe the black hole at the center of the Abell 1201 cluster and determine its mind-boggling size.

For 900 years, Edinburgh Castle has stood high atop volcanic rock overlooking Scotland's capital city, bearing witness to a history rife with upheaval and violence.

The ancient flower was first studied in 1998, but it was misclassified as a gymnosperm. A recent reexamination found that it was actually the oldest angiosperm ever found in Northwest China.