Washington Irving's famous The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, featuring the iconic headless horseman, was borne of a wondrous mix of history and folklore.

Cora Pearl's extravagance made her popular among France's elite. But she quickly fell out of favor after the Franco-Prussia war, when debauchery also went out of style.

Archaeologists successfully uncovered the hidden city high in the Cambodian mountains using aerial laser scanning technology.

Researchers wonder if the heavy rewarding of habit-based solutions in Western educational systems are destroying our ability to creatively problem-solve.

"What is the evidence against the possibility of life on Mars? The astonishing fact is that there is none."

First, they saw that the orb was bigger than them. Then they saw the thousands of little creatures wriggling around inside.

This wasn't even the first time doctors had to remove "metal forceps" from a man's urethra.

"To lose a completely healthy animal would be an oddity... To lose five young, very healthy, in great shape, perfect bulls that are all basically the same age... that is so outside the bounds of normal."

It's one of 54 chapters from a transcription of The Tale of Genji, written in the 11th century.

More than 36,000 pups are expected to be born on Bogoslof Island this year.

"The government is so unjust with us... The government doesn't recognize that we built their freedom."