Amusing Planet

On a grey morning in late May 1866, the waterfront of Fuzhou buzzed with anticipation. Along the Min River, some of the fastest ships ever b...

Legendary German composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach suffered from weak eyesight for much of his life. His handwriting—beautiful in ...

The Martin B-26 Marauder was one of the most successful bombers operated by the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. It was also one of...

On the morning of November 8, 1888, the passenger steamer SS Vaitarna departed from Mandvi—a busy port in Kutch, in the Indian state of Guj...

Macquarie Island, a windswept outpost in the south-western Pacific Ocean between Tasmania and Antarctica, is a place of staggering natural w...

In the woods near the city of Nykøbing Falster in southern Denmark lies a big pile of broken branches. At first glance, it looks like nothin...

On the windswept tip of north-western Tasmania, at a place long known to the Palawa people as Kennaook, sits one of the world’s most importa...

On May 25, 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy stood before a special joint session of Congress and announced the ambitious goal to land an...

Hidden among the sprawling roots and ruins of Ta Prohm , one of Angkor’s most atmospheric temples, lies a carving that has sparked fascinati...

In 1745, a Polish parish priest named Benedykt Joachim Chmielowski published Nowe Ateny (New Athens), the first encyclopedia ever written...