Weird history you wont believe! From personal dwarfs as entertainment to wars fought over stolen buckets, the past is full of ...

Napoleon's wife had a friend nicknamed Government Property for her affairs with numerous state ministers. Machiavelli once ...

The ancient Greek society was a complex mix of ingenuity, brutality, eccentricities and practices that you may define as cultural rites that often fall outside of contemporary expectations. Of the ...

Have you ever wondered about the remarkable events and figures that have shaped our world? While you might be familiar with some historical highlights, there's always more to discover—especially from ...

The past can be quite fascinating. Those of us living in the present find it really interesting what life was like 50, 100, or even a 1,000 years ago. Luckily, we can go almost 200 years to the past ...

Recently, we wrote about messed-up historical facts, and members of the BuzzFeed Community suggested some of their own in the comments. Since many of these concerned US history, we're back with some ...

County tax assessors once visited homes to put value on everything from land to furniture, columnist Mark Landis writes.