Wengen, Switzerland, may be small, but its resume is stacked, with luxury hotels, incredible fondue, and access to the ...

Hagenbeck first tested his ideas on human beings. Before there were zoos, there were menageries, collections of living animals that were housed in the gardens of European royalty.

Now, Volvo is doing it again For 2026, the company will launch what it calls the world’s first “multi-adaptive” safety belt. This next-gen upgrade debuts in the fully electric Volvo EX60. It’s ...

In 1998, snowboarding debuted at the Winter Olympics, setting the stage for White’s global takeover. By 2006, he claimed his first Olympic gold medal in the halfpipe event, cementing his place ...

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It was, in fact, anything but simple. The first hurdle, as Purdum writes, was a fear that audiences would not welcome an interracial couple or Arnaz’s accented English into their homes every week.

That step turned into the Messerschmitt Me 262, the first operational jet fighter. The Me 262 was conceived in 1938, though it wouldn't fly under full jet power until mid-1942.