The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. 1488 Bartolomeu Dias returns to Portugal after rounding the Cape of ...

Think about the conquerors, rulers, and intellectuals who shaped the world. They led armies, built empires, made ...

On Dec. 2, 1982, in the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of Barney Clark, a retired dentist who lived ...

The catastrophic retreat of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée from Russia in 1812, which claimed the lives of approximately 300,000 of his half-million soldiers, marked the beginning of the end for ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. A skull of a soldier from Napoleon's army. Courtesy of Aix-Marseille Université, France. Scientists have extracted DNA from a ...

Two centuries after Napoleon’s younger sister called it home, a historic villa outside Lucca, Italy is back on the market — an exceedingly rare chance to own a property entwined with the Bonaparte ...

In 1912 he was one of the greatest of U. S. commercial successes. Young, ambitious men, seeking business inspiration, pored over his oft-written success story. A Retail Napoleon was the title one of ...

The ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying the king’s body enabled his ascension to the realm of the gods. According to this belief, the preserved body, known as the Ach — a luminous spirit — was ...

President Donald Trump's post on Truth Social on Saturday afternoon led some critics to compare his words to authoritarian French ruler Napoleon Bonaparte and label him a "dictator." Newsweek has ...

Napoleon Bonaparte is known for his confidence, military prowess, and strength as a strategist. But on a spring night in 1814, the French emperor found himself in a dark place after a crushing ...