Pedestrianism was a sport of epic rivalries, eyewatering salaries, feverish nationalism, eccentric personalities and six-day, 450-mile walks.

"Animation has been critical to the MTV brand from its inception," says MTV Entertainment president Chris McCarthy. The network helped bring adult and experimental animation into the mainstream.

In 1980, the tumultuous filming and release of Michael Cimino’s ‘Heaven’s Gate’ changed Hollywood forever

Scientist Elizabeth Turner found fossilized evidence of 890-million-year-old sponges. These are possibly the earliest known evidence of animal life on Earth.

 Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements

Switzerland's 15th-Century farmers and vintners had a dangerously creative solution to irrigating their mountainous land that's still in use today.

With the approval of the government, a renowned sexologist ran a dangerous program. How could this happen?

Scholars have investigated the issue for centuries, but many questions persist.

HBO’s Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage focuses on infamous music festival

The long read: In 2003, the destruction of one particular statue in Baghdad made worldwide headlines and came to be a symbol of western victory in Iraq. But there was so much more to it – or rather, so much less

Say what you want about Soviet technology, but you’ve got to admit there was a certain style to Cold War-era electronics

A statuette from the John Huston–Humphrey Bogart classic The Maltese Falcon is one of the most recognizable, and sought-after, pieces of movie memorabilia in history.

With the arrival of American soldiers in Calcutta, a short but fascinating period of cultural exchange emerged. American food, drinks, music, magazines and cinema soon found an enthusiastic consumer in the city.

The long read: The effects of ‘weird weather’ were already being felt in the 1960s, but scientists linking fossil fuels with climate change were dismissed as prophets of doom

With 300 decadent recipes, a relentless priest united regional dialects and preserved a common tongue.

Author revisits troubled history of Filipino tribe brought to America in 1905.

The long read: The effects of ‘weird weather’ were already being felt in the 1960s, but scientists linking fossil fuels with climate change were dismissed as prophets of doom

Alexei Stakhanov, who managed to extract 102 tonnes of coal in a single shift, started a trend that still holds sway in the workplaces of today.

A record-breaking Soviet miner from 1935 embodied a system of values that is central to contemporary work cultures today.

The discovery of 751 unmarked graves at the Marieval Indian Residential School is the latest in Canada’s grim tally.