A self-taught slave who escaped to freedom, Susie King Taylor educated African American soldiers at a time when it was illegal for a Black woman to read.

Travis Gienger hauled the nearly two-and-a-half-ton gourd on a custom-made trailer from Minnesota to California for the competition.

Kyle Burgess managed to capture the harrowing six-minute incident on film before escaping unscathed.

"When the details became clear, we had the altar removed and burned."

Originating in Seattle, grunge took America by storm in the late '80s and early '90s — and became just as much a lifestyle as it was a music genre.

From the 1969 Berkshires UFO incident to the eerie tale of Barney and Betty Hill, these alien abduction stories might even make skeptics believe that the truth is out there.

The nurses were captured calling the mother of seven "stupid as hell," and two have since been fired.

"Not every man with a beard photographed after 1861 was Abraham Lincoln."

The 25-year-old apparently used self-inflicted lacerations to scrawl "Hail Satan" on the door of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house.

South Korean observers say that the North Korean village of Kijong-dong is nothing more than a fake town built to spread propaganda. The buildings are believed to be empty shells with painted-on windows.

Learn the history behind the trial of the Chicago 7 and how defendants like Abbie Hoffman and Bobby Seale protested the Vietnam War during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.