Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

The origins of the Gambino crime family are not all that different from those of the Genoveses. In fact, it was Giuseppe Morello’s ally Ignazio Lupo, also known as “Lupo the Wolf,” who started the ...

In 1991, the Bonanno family regained their seat on the Commission when Massino was appointed boss following Rastelli’s death. Massino took an isolationist approach to running the family, shutting down ...

The history of the Lucchese crime family doesn’t go back quite as far as that of the Genovese and Gambino families. While it was originally formed by members of the Morello gang who had split off, it ...

While the other gangs in the Five Families date back to before the Castellammarese War, the Colombo family didn’t come about until 1928. Then, Joe Profaci put together a bootlegging gang that would ...

As East Germany begins to construct the Berlin Wall, guards are sent to watch over the temporary line of barbed wire separating the east and the west. One East German guard, Konrad Schumann, takes ...

As a deity of agriculture, Kokopelli is said to chase away the winter by playing his flute, each year ushering in the spring and symbolizing the newfound growth that accompanies it. He is also ...

By 1991, many in the Soviet Union felt that change was in the air. The last several years had seen the end of the war in Afghanistan, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and a series of revolutions across ...

Though Prince initially split his time between his mother’s home and his father’s home, he had complicated relationships with both of his parents, and he later ended up living with his neighbors, the ...

Marie-Thérèse, unhappily married to her husband, spent the rest of her life in exile and died in 1851 at the age of 72. Ultimately, however, she lived the longest of all of Marie Antoinette’s children ...

The family lived in a beautiful home in Surrey, England, where Soon-Yi and her siblings were entertained by a menagerie of pets. But as Soon-Yi tells it, hers was an unhappy childhood. Soon-Yi told ...

Philip Hamilton was born on January 22, 1782, in Albany, New York. That spring, Alexander Hamilton wrote to Richard Kidder Meade, an American Army officer, about how proud he was of his newborn son.