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All kingdoms and empires have to begin somewhere, These were the people who created them—whether by force or diplomacy—here are the first rulers of kingdoms and empires.

In 1934, Gloria Vanderbilt was at the center of an infamous child custody battle—but throughout the proceedings, she kept the most devastating secret.

Somehow, in the middle of the Dark Ages, it was one of the most accurate maps in the world. But how did Fra Mauro accomplish it?

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator has been fascinating people for nearly a century, but the story of this iconic test is stranger than people realize.

There are many lists out there that itemize so-called “wonders of the world,” but the original list—the definitive one—has been around for nearly 2,000 years. Though most of the structures on it have been lost to time, one survives to this day—and many of history’s most compelling stories are interwoven with the lives of these wonders.

Though Walt Disney World covers 25,000 acres, only half of that has been used by the park—and then, of course, there are the areas that are abandoned, the most intriguing of which is Discovery Island.