Mary Jo Kopechne was one of Washington's sharpest political minds. She died in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick in 1969. The full story of who she was and what really happened.

In the early 1900s, pushball had Harvard, the British military, and crowds of thousands in its grip. A six-foot ball, two teams, and thirty years of glorious chaos. The full story.

In 1757, a servant named Damiens stabbed Louis XV with a penknife. The wound was 1cm deep. His execution lasted all day. The last quartering in French history.