Schinderhannes is a nickname for Johannes Bückler, a criminal who was born sometime in 1779 in Germany, to a family of ...

The legendary robbers Schinderhannes and Schwarzer Jonas were executed by guillotine in Mainz in 1803. In 1805, the first chairholder of anatomy at the University of Heidelberg, Jacob Fidelis ...

Five decades into her career, the Tony Award-winning actress and TV icon, making her Broadway directing debut, feels like ...

A skeletal, mermaid-like creation appeared on a local beach in Kent, England, on March 10, leaving beachgoers baffled, ...

With this release, Formex turned its attention to ceramics. For the first time, I detect a slightly brazen tone in the ...

President Trump is planning to gut the work force while trying to turn the I.R.S. into a more political agency. The Trump administration is preparing budget cuts and further layoffs that could ...

KHAO SAM ROI YOT NATIONAL PARK, THAILAND—Thai PBS World reports that Thailand’s Fine Arts Department announced an extraordinary discovery—the oldest human skeleton ever found in the country.

The remains of a human skeleton have been discovered in the garden of a bungalow while the homeowner tried to landscape his garden. The grim discovery was made by a man giving his backyard a ...

For the most part, the sand is just like any other Atlantic Coast beach in Florida. But there are spongy black rock-like formations at the waterline. It's not a rock and it's not lava; it's a ...

For the most part, the sand is just like any other Atlantic Coast beach in Florida. But there are spongy black rock-like formations at the waterline. It's not a rock and it's not lava; it's a spodosol ...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- For Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands, the collection of the biggest skeleton medals is complete. Bronze at the Beijing Olympics in 2022, silver at the world championships two ...

Kimberley Bos, of The Netherlands, is embraced after her run during fourth run at the skeleton world championships, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Lake Placid, N.Y. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson ...