In the greens overlooking the Potomac river, between the 14th hole and the 15th tee at the Trump National Golf Club in Lowes Island, Norther...
Squeaky floors are annoying, which is why when you search for “squeaky floors” in Google, you get hundreds of articles offering you tips and...
In the mountains of the Shanxi province in China, is the country’s biggest ice cave—an 85-meter deep bowling pin shaped subterranean structu...
At the turn of the last century, when aviation was still in its infancy, a German named Julius Neubronner submitted a patent for a new inven...
Underneath Portland’s Old Town is a network of tunnel passages connecting the basements of many downtown bars and hotels to the Willamette R...
In 2005, a Michigan State law professor published a paper in a law journal where he described a way to commit the perfect crime and get away...
On a cold, snowy December night in 1598, about a dozen men armed with swords, daggers and axes quietly broke into a recently vacated theater...
The bald eagle may be America’s national bird, but for the small Alaskan town of Unalaska, this majestic bird is little more than a pest. Th...
The northern tip of Greenland, despite being situated a little over 700 km from the north pole, is entirely ice free and has been for the la...
There was a time in Great Britain when having windows in homes and buildings were prohibitively expensive. That time began in 1696 with the...
Just outside the city of Palmerston North in the North Island of New Zealand is a rubbish dump named Mt Cleese. It’s perhaps the first time...
There once stood a huge oak tree near the center of Eufala, a small city in Alabama, the United States. The 65-foot-tall tree was the city’s...
On the southwest corner of Devon Island in the Canadian Archipelago of Nunavut, lies a small desolate island—the island of Beechey. For more...
In Australia, cattle stations—which is the equivalent of an American ranch—tend to be unimaginably large, so large that some of them are big...
During the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, between Great Britain and the United States, the border between British Canada an...
Modern life is full of conveniences but few things are as convenient as sliced bread. Just think about it. To make a sandwich all you need ...
Between the 13th and the 19th centuries, the northern hemisphere was in the grip of a “Little Ice Age”. Temperatures dropped worldwide as su...
About 30 kilometers to the west of the modern city of Yinchuan, lies the enormous burial complex of the Western Xia dynasty. Spread over 40 ...
A typical Pakistani truck driver spends more time with his truck than he does with his wife. Which explains why he wants his 10-ton six-whee...
That night was the most horrible that any member of the motor launch crews ever experienced. The scattered rifle shots in the pitch black sw...
