Stories

Mysteriously disappearing on their honeymoon, what happened to Glen and Bessie Hyde is still an intriguing enigma.

Most nations today describe themselves as some sort of republic, but many used to be monarchies with autocratic rulers. What happened to this once-popular system of government?

Walter Sickert was an outstanding English Impressionist who was once hailed as the most important English artist and, possibly, a serial murderer.

German physician Franz Mesmer claimed he could cure any illness with his animal magnetism until Benjamin Franklin's investigation ruined his career for good.

Our favorite morning brew was discovered in the most bizarre ways, and as it became popular, the history of coffee is no less strange.

Here are ten famous cocktails, listed alongside their origins and ingredients. But which historic figures were they named after, and why?

It is hard to believe that a Siberian peasant became one of the most important men in Tsarist Russia, but Rasputin’s life was one of defying expectations.

Jane Austen’s novels advocated virtuous living, drawing on Aristotelian ideas of virtue and implicit Christian virtues to find the middle path to happiness.