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The USS Cyclops.

One of the largest ships in the U.S. Navy disappeared without a trace. More than 100 years later, its fate remains unknown.

Quarantined for Life: The Tragic History of US Leprosy Colonies

Stripped of their most basic human rights, patients nonetheless built lives and communities.

Skeletal analysis of troops at the Battle of the Little Bighorn suggests a very different outcome.

Koster dog burial, July 1975, (Credit: Del Baston, courtesy of the Center of American Archeology)

New analysis of an ancient site gives man’s oldest friendship an even earlier start date.

How Joseph Stalin Tried to Enforce Atheism

Joseph Stalin led a uniquely brutal campaign against religion and religious leaders.

The Soviet masses did not respond well to 'prozodezhda,' a 1920s experiment that sought to revolutionize dress.

Doris Payne

Payne, deciding she was ‘never going to be under the thumb of a man,’ took to a life of crime, traveled the world and mastered the jewel heist.

The three prisoners that escaped from Alcatraz (L-R): Clarence and John Anglin, and Frank Morris.

A 2013 letter to the FBI, if real, suggests the Anglin brothers and Frank Morris survived one of the most daring—and dangerous—prison breaks of all time.

A recently released book details an overheard conversation with Nazi officials as new evidence for an old theory.

Settlers of Jamestown

Captain George Kendall is believed to be the first among the colonists to be executed, but which crime was he killed for?

Beanie Babies

In the 1990s, hysteria over Ty Inc's $5 plush toys fed a wave of theft, fraud and market manipulation. Values soared—then plummeted.

President Jimmy Carter

Carter's executive order left many people furious, while others saw it as a bold show of compassion.

Hanukkah, How to Light the Menorah, Hanukkiah

From carving menorahs on stolen blocks of wood to creating makeshift wicks from scraps of fat and used loose threads, concentration camp inmates devised covert ways to celebrate the holiday.

Prehistoric man

Early humans may have been primitive—but they had some sophisticated habits and tastes.

An analysis of Adolf Hitler's teeth and bones puts to rest questions of how he died.

Tomoyuki Yamashita in Germany

Tomoyuki Yamashita and the Führer had their own separate agendas. Later, they would share a mutual interest in gold.

Auschwitz: Numbers Reveal the Horrors of WWII's Deadliest Concentration Camp

How many were killed, how many children were sent to the site and the numbers of people who attempted to escape are among the facts that reveal the scale of crimes committed at Auschwitz.

Korean War UFOs

Theories range from high-tech Soviet death rays to extraterrestrials studying human combat to combat-stress-induced hallucinations.

Inside the Allies’ Race to Take Berlin—and Its Atomic Research—in 1945

One prize in the Allies' race to take Berlin: the German scientists working to develop the atomic bomb.

3 Generations of Trump

For decades, they denied their German roots, claiming to be of Scandinavian origin.

She started as a clerk-typist, but when she got to the OSS Emergency Sea Rescue Equipment Section, she began to do more significant work.

The hulking skeletons are believed to have been the descendants of Vikings who colonized northern France and, later, southern Italy and Sicily.

Adrian Cronauer, a disc jockey on the Saigon-based Dawn Buster radio show from 1965-1966 whose experiences in the Vietnam War were chronicled in the movie "Good Morning, Vietnam," poses outside his home in Philadelphia, 1987.

Adrian Cronauer saw his role on the radio in Vietnam as a way to keep members of the military entertained as they served their country.

H.L. Hunley

All eight crew members were eerily in position at their stations when the sub was discovered on the ocean floor. Why hadn't they run?

Did George Washington Believe in God?

Religion was a topic America's first president remained extremely cagey about.

Detail of a Soviet work poster entitled "We Smite the Lazy Workers," 1931. (Credit: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The experiment of a 'continuous week' was shift work, on a colossal scale. And it failed.

Gilbert Stuart portrait of Louisa Adams

Louisa Adams did not step foot on American soil before her 26th birthday—the same age as the second foreign-born first lady, Melania Trump, when she came to the United States nearly 200 years later.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

On July 4, 1826, two prominent presidents, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, took their final breaths within hours of each other. Some have wondered if it was somehow planned.

1911 Heat Wave

Railway tracks buckled, people slept in parks, hundreds died, while others tried to die as the heat and humidity became unbearable.

Motorists stop and wave as police cars pursue the Ford Bronco driven by Al Cowlings, carrying fugitive murder suspect O.J. Simpson, on a 90-minute slow-speed car chase June 17, 1994 on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles, California.

One company wanted to hawk tourist rides in it—along the infamous 405 freeway chase route.

Evel Knievel, 1976

Without the death-defying thrill of jumping, life was boring, he said. But that wasn't the only reason he kept at it.

Timothy Coggins was murdered in October 1983. Until now, his murder was unsolved for 34 years. (Credit: Spalding County Sheriffs Department)

In 1983, two men stabbed and dragged a Black man to death for dating a white woman. One of the murderers has finally been convicted.

Karl F. Koecher, center, a former CIA contract employee, being escorted by FBI agents from the agency's headquarters in 1984. Koecher was arrested on charges of delivering classified national security information to the Czechoslovakian intelligence service.

Karl Koecher and his wife lived a swinging, gold-plated life in New York City—all the while funneling classified information to the Soviets.

A.J. Luna worked in security and convoy communications. The threat of being hit by a bomb or a sniper was constant.