Rocky Balboa is one of the most iconic characters in film, but look closely throughout the franchise, and you might see one item that Sylvester Stallone said was the character's heart and soul.

Annabelle is one of the world's most famous supposedly haunted dolls, but the real-life version looks nothing like the ...

Following Republican victories in the 1930 midterms, Democrats gained control of the House of Representatives after ...

Lacrosse, America's oldest team sport, dates to 1100, when it was played by the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois people, in what now is New York and areas in Canada bordering the state. The early versions ...

Toward the end of the 14th century A.D., a handful of Italian thinkers declared that they were living in a new age. The barbarous, unenlightened “Middle Ages” were over, they said; the new age would ...

Horror is often dismissed as a genre of cheap thrills. Yet across dozens of novels and story collections, Stephen King has challenged that assumption. His unflinching portrayals of domestic trauma, ...

World War II began just five months after the Spanish Civil War ended. Here are five key ways the conflict in Spain foreshadowed what would become the largest and deadliest war in human history.

Dunkirk is a small town on the coast of France that was the scene of a massive military campaign during World War II. During the Battle of Dunkirk from May 26 to June 4, 1940, some 338,000 British ...

The English philosopher and political theorist John Locke (1632-1704) laid much of the groundwork for the Enlightenment and made central contributions to the development of liberalism. Trained in ...

The Second Punic War pitted the Roman Republic against what was then the other great power in the Mediterranean—Carthage, an ancient city located in what is now Tunisia. Carthage controlled the ...

The Holy Grail is traditionally thought to be the cup that Jesus Christ drank from at the Last Supper and that Joseph of Arimathea used to collect Jesus’s blood at his crucifixion. From ancient ...

The Marshall Plan was an example of "good deed foreign policy" designed to rebuild Western European economies in the wake of WWII. 3:03m watch Post-war Europe was in dire straits: Millions of its ...