Amusing Planet

On the morning of April 16, 1947, residents of Texas City, a busy industrial port on the Gulf Coast of Texas, watched smoke rise from a carg...

Milo of Croton was the strongest man in the ancient Greek world, or so the stories say. A six-time Olympic champion, military hero, and larg...

Underneath the narrow streets, churches, and palaces of the Italian city of Siena lies a sprawling network of underground aqueducts that sup...

For nearly seven decades, one of the most feared men in Rome lived an otherwise ordinary life. He sold umbrellas, attended church, and walke...

More than a century before Albert Einstein revolutionized physics with his theory of general relativity, and nearly two centuries before ast...

It appears that quite a few people have been killed or brought to justice for having failed to deliver on their promise of turning ordinary ...

In the first century BC, nearly two thousand years before the invention of the microscope, the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro made a r...

For centuries, travellers to the southern tip of South America returned with astonishing stories. They spoke of a land swept by fierce winds...

In the early hours of April 27, 1865, a steamboat packed with nearly two thousand exhausted Union soldiers drifted northward on the Mississi...

One of Hong Kong’s most unusual sights is the stone wall tree—a mature tree growing directly out of a masonry retaining wall. These remarka...