“It’s celebrating something we normally don’t get to celebrate, which is fatness, and fatness as something good and positive, because the bears survive on their fat,” Katmai National Park’s media ...

People used to believe that the blood of the freshly executed was a health tonic and would pay executioners a little money to let them drink it warm.

One such necropolis was erected on property once occupied by Father François de La Chaise d’Aix, the onetime confessor for Louis XIV—hence the name. ( Père means “father” in French.) The government ...

It has been said that Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was among those who read newspaper notices of the Burnham and Lofty deaths and found their misfortunes oddly similar. Doyle dashed ...