How "Wild Bill" Hickok rose from humble Quaker roots in Illinois to become a legendary lawman and gunslinger of the Wild West.In the days of the Wild West, no one was cockier than Wild Bill Hickok. The legendary gunfighter and frontier lawman once claimed that he had killed hundreds of men — a truly shocking exaggeration. It all started with an infamous article that was published in an 1867 issue of Harper’s Weekly.

"We knew how important the violin is to Dagmar, so it was vital that we preserved function in the delicate areas of her brain that allowed her to play." King’s College Hospital/YouTubeNeurosurgeon Keyoumars Ashkan (left) removes a brain tumor as his patient Dagmar Turner plays her violin. When doctors first told musician Dagmar Turner that she needed surgery to remove the tumor in her brain, the first thing she thought of was whether she would still be able to play her violin.

A German carpenter is hoping to revolutionize contraception with a simple valve that can turn the flow of sperm on and off with the flip of a switch. The flow of sperm in humans can now be flipped on and off with the simple flip of a switch. A German carpenter named Clemens Bimek claims that he has invented a revolutionary form of contraception: an on and off valve to control the flow of sperm from the testicles.

For decades, the town of Pyramiden on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard was considered a model of Soviet society — until a tragic accident prompted its residents to abandon this former utopia, leaving it frozen in time.Jussi Toivanen/FlickrAbandoned Soviet buildings in Pyramiden. On a remote Norwegian island inside the Arctic Circle lies Pyramiden, an abandoned coal mining town that once employed hundreds of men from the Soviet Union. In its heyday during the Cold War, this settlement was home to over 1,000 people trying to make an honest living in one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth.

Few recall that Radu the Handsome was able to defeat his notorious brother Vlad in 1462 with the help of Sultan Mehmed II, who may have also been Radu's lover. Wikimedia CommonsA 19th century painting of Radu III, better known as Radu the Handsome. The story of Vlad the Impaler — the cruel ruler sometimes referred to as the “real” Dracula — is well known. But history has almost forgotten about his brother, Radu III of Wallachia or Radu the Handsome.