These couples have gone down in history. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most iconic couples who have ruled the past several centuries. Our countdown includes Queen Victoria & Prince Albert, Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo, Shah Jahan & Muma...

Velázquez depicts a bright future in the idealized depiction of Margarita who was the only living heir at the time. But the reality was much more bleak.

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Six ways that Beethoven revolutionized the symphonic genre, and changed music history forever.

WARNING: GRAPHIC 1930s PHOTO! "Strange Fruit," a protest song about lynching made famous by Billie Holiday, was written not by an African American activist, but by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish high school teacher from New York. This video is an interview wi...

Jazz vocalist Billie Holiday was born in 1915 in Philadelphia. Considered one of the best jazz vocalists of all time, Holiday had a thriving career as a jazz singer for many years before she lost her battle with substance abuse. Also known as Lady Day, he...

Christopher Columbus (c. 1451 to May 20, 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator. In 1492, he sailed across the Atlantic from Spain in the Santa Maria, with the Pinta and the Niña ships alongside, hoping to find a new route to India. Between 1492 and...

The Stonewall Inn Riots sparked the beginning of the gay rights movement in America. Learn how members of the LGBTQ community came together to protest exploitation and police harassment.

Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100...

Witness the remarkable power of artificial intelligence as it recreates the faces of all 45 United States Presidents throughout history. From the iconic visage of Abraham Lincoln to the charismatic presence of John F. Kennedy, and from the polarizing expr...

Actress and singer Judy Garland was born June 10, 1922, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Garland signed a movie contract with MGM at the age of 13. In 1939, she scored one of her greatest on-screen successes with The Wizard of Oz. In 1950, MGM dropped her from...

One of the most disorienting things about being in England is watching people drive on the left since the majority of the rest of the world drives on the right. What is the reason behind this difference and when was driving on the left established?

Using a line painted down the center of a road to denote lanes seems to be merely common sense. But it was an innovation that took a surprising amount of time to develop. The history of lane markings is a study in the rapid effect of new technologies, an...

Weird History Food has got a Hot-n-Ready pizza video on Little Caesar's waiting for you. The company was started in the late 60s by Mike Illitch who took Little Ceasar's from a small mom-and-pop pizza parlor to a global phenomenon. Grab a slice and watch...

Nominated for five Tony Awards including best musical revival, Lerner & Loewe's "Camelot" is a romantic telling of King Arthur, Queen Guenevere and the Knights of the Round Table. But did Arthur really exist?