Women like Mae Capone and Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti stood behind their gangster husbands for better or for worse.

Around 104 C.E., Pliny the Younger sat down to write a letter. “Though my shocked soul recoils, my tongue shall tell,” he told the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus. Then, Pliny began to describe what ...

Yōkai are supernatural beings like kappas, demons, and even haunted household objects that have appeared in Japanese art and folklore for centuries. It’s difficult to define yōkai in simple terms.

At first, Aaron Hernandez captivated America because of his astounding feats on the football field. Then, it was the accusation that he’d murdered his acquaintance Odin Lloyd. And finally, it was ...

At a remote temple in Cambodia’s Angkor Wat Archaeological Park, researchers have discovered a large sandstone guardian statue buried just under the dirt. The statue, known as a dvarapala, was still ...

For centuries, the Lion of Venice has loomed over the Italian city as one of its most famous landmarks. It was long thought that the iconic sculpture originated in Anatolia, but a recent study ...

Geri McGee was much more involved in the mob business than Mae Capone. Whereas the latter was certainly aware of what her husband did, McGee was an active participant in many of the hustles of her ...

Pupetta Maresca wasn’t an American mob wife, but she did make a name for herself when she married Pasquale Simonetti, a member of the Italian crime organization known as the Camorra. Assunta Maresca, ...

Being a mobster is dangerous, but evidently, so is being a mob wife. Alice Granville was mostly known as an actress, though there is shockingly little information on her available. In fact, most ...

Archaeologists working at Yeşilova Mound in İzmir, Türkiye, have uncovered an 8,200-year-old kohl pen, believed to be the world’s oldest example of eyeliner. The site, occupied between 6500 to 4000 ...

John Gotti is one of New York’s most infamous mobsters. He frequently made headlines — and right beside him was his wife, Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti. Despite her husband’s notoriety, Victoria Gotti has ...