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Fun fact... or not. Before his death in Rome in 1564, Michelangelo burned most of his drawings and sketches.

New York: A simple square scribbled on a yellowed piece of paper believed to have been drawn by Renaissance genius Michelangelo will go on sale in Apr...

By Jim Willis

History disproves one of the most famous ideas in economics.

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek ..... Seemingly, a 20-second conversation was all it took to undo over 1,000 years of British numismatic tradition. In 1966,

Ray Martin hosted annual Cinematographers Awards with Stefan Duscio ACS taking out top prize.

Video game commandos call them “Deagles.” Bernard C. White of Magnum Research and Arnolds Streinbergs of Riga Arms Institute filed the US patent application for the mechanism behind their extraordinary gas-actuated pistol in January of 1983. The end result was an unholy union of the AR15 and the Mini14 all packed into a massive handgun chassis. These guns were first built and marketed by IMI (Israeli Military Industries).

The Bowring Treaty of 1855 is a landmark of Thailand's modern history. The treaty opened the door for the colonial invasion of Siam's economy, and helped drag Siam into the modern world. It's a story about the great wheels of history, especially of colonial expansion and the cultural collision of East and West. But such events of great practical and symbolic significance are also about people, about the "big people" who shape these events, and the "little people&quo...

The Bowring Treaty of 1855 is a landmark of Thailand's modern history. The treaty opened the door for the colonial invasion of Siam's economy, and helped drag Siam into the modern world. It's a story about the great wheels of history, especially of colonial expansion and the cultural collision of East and West. But such events of great practical and symbolic significance are also about people, about the "big people" who shape these events, and the "little people&quo...

Halyna Hutchins (L) and Alec Baldwin (R.) Halyna Hutchins/Instagram, Jim Spellman/Getty Images Prop guns and blank cartridges are used on Hollywood