During his rule, Elagabalus (c. 203 – March 11, 222) showed a disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos. He was married as many as five times and is reported to have prostituted himself in the imperial ...Read More

Though the Las Vegas sprawl measures 15 miles wide by 15 miles long, most of the 30 million tourists each year tend to mob the 6-mile stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard that includes both the Strip, home to the city's ...Read More

Most beer today is made by boiling grain. However, some ancient cultures had a very different take on the process. In Incan society, women would chew corn and then spit the mush into a vat of warm water where it was ...Read More

On a clear day with blue skies, lightning can jump outside of its parent cloud and travel for more than five miles through clear air. This is called the "bolt from the blue" phenomenon. The study of lightning is called ...Read More

There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.

In 1889, the first coin-operated telephone, patented by Hartford, Connecticut inventor William Gray, was installed in the Hartford Bank. Soon, "pay phones" were installed in stores, hotels, saloons, and restaurants, and ...Read More