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Painting showing French sailors firing a cannon while a 'powder monkey' - a young boy holding a container of gunpowder - stands next to them

Powder monkeys and horse divers: The strangest jobs from history
Kevin Costner

6 facts you didn’t know about Kevin Costner
Monument with the inscription in Russian "To participants of liquidation of consequences of radiation accident Kyshtym-57"

The Kyshtym disaster: Russia’s hidden nuclear crisis

Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands and Princess Elisabeth of Belgium dressed in ball gowns

7 Gen Z royals you need to know about
Young people in the US celebrate VJ Day while holding newspapers with the headline 'WAR ENDS'

WWII: What happened on VJ Day?
A ceremony to celebrate the liberation of Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Cenotaph in 1945

VJ Day 80: The forgotten story of Hong Kong’s liberation
Glowing mysterious lights floating in the sky on a spooky foggy winters night

Lakenheath-Bentwaters incident: The UK’s Roswell
Still from the 1954 film 'Sitting Bull' showing Sitting Bull sitting with Robert Parrish

How accurate is the 'Sitting Bull' movie?
A hansom cab on a London street in 1877

The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894
Photo of the Pre-hispanic art from Mexico

4 predictions the Mayan calendar got right (and one it didn’t)
Painting of Mary Magdalene kneeling before Jesus after his resurrection

8 facts you didn’t know about Mary Magdalene
Pickle Wheat picking up a large python in the Florida Everglades

Swamp People: Serpent Invasion - Who is Pickle Wheat?
The Toronto skyline at night

Mafia in Canada: How the ’Ndrangheta built a Toronto empire
Rylan Clark and Professor Alice Roberts stand in front of an evidence board

Witches of Essex: What Rylan Clark’s new series might reveal
Missiles with warheads ready to be launched

Atomic: What is 'The Atomic Bazaar'?
Thomas Winterton

Curse of Skinwalker Ranch: Who is Thomas Winterton?
The Fountain of Youth, 1546 painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder

History’s hunt for the Fountain of Youth
An old iron chastity belt on display

7 biggest sex myths from history
Bas-Relief of Pharaoh Thutmose III smiting and killing Canaanite enemies at the Battle of Megiddo on the Seventh Pylon in Karnak Temple

4 legendary battles from Ancient Egypt
Madam C.J Walker

Madam C.J. Walker: History's first female self-made millionaire
The Gilbert 238 Atomic Energy Lab on display in a museum

The shockingly hazardous history of radioactive toys
Postcards and other seaside essential being sold at a beachfront store

The (cheeky) history of British seaside postcards
Silhouette of the Curse of Skinwalker Ranch team against a hazy evening sky with lights from a UFO hovering above them

How to watch ‘Curse of Skinwalker Ranch’ season 6 in the UK
Statue of Plato in front of the Academy of Athens

How Plato’s grave was finally found
Queen Elizabeth II sitting in the Royal Box in 2010

The rules and controversies of Wimbledon’s Royal Box
Lithograph showing the Battle of Little Bighorn

The legacy of the Battle of Little Bighorn
The North Pier next to Blackpool Tower which is seen reflecting in a tidal pool on the beach

Why did everyone want to visit Blackpool?
Beaumanor Hall

8 lesser-known British codebreakers of WWII
18th century cartoon depicting male and female crossdressing

Princess Seraphina: Britain’s first drag queen
Statue of Thutmose III

4 strongest warrior pharaohs from Ancient Egypt
Henry Winkler holding up his fists while facing a stuffed brown bear

Who is Henry Winkler?
Historic trail marker at the Fort Walsh National Historic Site

The lost chapter of Sitting Bull’s exile in Canada
Image: Yasuke (L) and Fujibayashi Naoe (R) in the Assassin's Creed Shadows key art

‘An incredible sense of reality' in 'Assassin’s Creed Shadows'
Fields of tents at Glastonbury overlooking a stage

The history of Glastonbury
Giuseppe Farina driving in the very first F1 race in 1950

Racing through history: 75 years of F1
Statue of a suffragette holding a banner saying 'COURAGE CALLS TO COURAGE EVERYWHERE'

The suffragette plot to burn down Wimbledon