Historical photographs are supposed to make the past easier to understand. Every once in a while, they accomplish exactly the opposite. Take enough pictures across nearly two centuries and eventually you’ll capture combinations that look completely impossible without context: samurai posing beside an ancient Egyptian monument, experimental technology resembling a

Movies love enormous decisions. Take the dangerous job, marry the wrong person, open the mysterious door, and suddenly there’s enough trouble to fill the next two hours. But sometimes the most disastrous choices barely feel like choices at all. Someone goes back to give a dying man some water. A

The PG-13 rating covers an enormous amount of territory. One movie might earn it for a few swear words, while another somehow gets the exact same rating after spending two hours terrifying audiences or putting its characters through situations we’d rather not describe over dinner. The rating was created to

Before being known as the Presidents of the United States of America, the men that have taken that seat in the White House had widely different careers from one another. Sure, they all eventually became politicians, but they weren’t born into the role. Rather, they built a career that led

History is filled with outlandish reports that make us question their veracity, since there’s no way those things actually happened. Well, since we have little evidence to the contrary, we just have to believe these events took place. Not to mention, all the evidence we have of the ones we’re