"Though some Viking women buried with weapons are known, a female warrior of this importance has never been determined and Viking scholars have been reluctant to acknowledge the agency of women with weapons."

For roughly seven months in what's known as the Prague Spring, Czechoslovakia exercised a more lax form of communism, provoking the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact to invade in August 1968.

A toxicology report has not yet been released on the deceased birds, but veterinarian professionals suspect poisoning of some kind.

"It seems to be a case of a couple of lovebirds who have made the wrong connection, unfortunately," a rep for the power company said.

Only 100 or so members of the Awá-Guajá tribe remain within the deepest reaches of the Amazon today.

2.5 million residents were reduced to just under 800,000 from starvation, disease, and exposure during the siege of Leningrad.

The Arizona organization claimed to be a respectable donor for the body parts of loved ones. In reality, it was an illegal body broker selling parts overseas.

June 2019 was the hottest month on record — so hot that it caused the Arctic Circle to catch on fire.

One American general called the Battle of Iwo Jima “the most savage and the most costly battle in the history of the Marine Corps.”

A New Jersey representative wants to know whether a Lyme disease outbreak in the '50s and '70s coincided with a government-sanctioned experiment gone awry, and has passed a bill to investigate.

"It’s totally illegal to do it. Did I know it? No. Did I know I couldn’t feed a turtle? Alligators...yeah, I kind of knew that."