While it's not available for sale, the necklace helps bring the guillotine cut's dark history — in all its grim-yet-inspiring ...

British and Commonwealth soldiers who died fighting in the First World War have no known grave. John Nichol, former Gulf ...

Historians characterize the Catilinarian conspiracy as the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire—which director Francis ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

Countless thousands of lives are lost at sea every year. New safety efforts could benefit from learning from historic and ...

An assassins’ weapon that removed heads, the fictional ‘flying guillotine’ was featured in a number of Hong Kong wuxia films.

However, in 2003, an Irish peat harvester made a discovery that would change the hairstyle's history forever -- a ... in that little basket just below the guillotine. The Style: When the Manchu ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...

The history of lupus can be divided into three periods: classical, neoclassical, and modern. This article concentrates on developments in the present century which have greatly expanded our knowledge ...

With the arrival of autumn, comes the year's spookiest holiday: Halloween. A celebration of all things wicked and scary, it's the only time of year that being a ghost, werewolf or vampire is not ...