Amusing Planet

Every four years, couples from all over the United Kingdom, and sometimes beyond, come to the little Essex village of Great Dunmow to take ...

In the mid-19th century, the river Senne, which was once the lifeblood of Brussels, had become its greatest liability. It had become pollute...

In the summer of 1817, a mysterious creature was seen swimming in the harbor of Gloucester and along the coast of Cape Ann. Eyewitnesses des...

In the rugged hills of north western Spain, amid green forests of chestnut and oak, rises an otherworldly landscape of jagged red cliffs, ho...

Many violent riots have begun over matters that seem almost absurd. In 1325, the rival cities of Modena and Bologna went to war over a woode...

Among the countless local celebrations held across Japan each year, one of the most unusual is the Enrei Onodachi Memorial Festival, often d...

In the early 19th century, England produced an animal so enormous that it became a national curiosity. Named the Craven Heifer, this extraor...

Before the modern period, in Japan, certain colours were strictly regulated by law and custom, and wearing them without permission could be ...

On the evening of 17 September 1908, a young American officer named Thomas Selfridge climbed into a fragile wooden aircraft at Fort Myer, Vi...

In 480 BC, Xerxes the Great, the fourth king of the Achaemenid Empire, launched the largest invasion the Greek world had yet faced. Xerxes’s...