Juliane Koepcke was seventeen and desperate to get home. She had just graduated from high school in Lima, and was returning to her home in t...
When American war correspondent and photographer Michael Yon went accompanying US soldiers to Afghanistan in 2009, and began photographing t...
Four years after the events in Salem in Massachusetts, the United States, that saw the execution of nineteen innocent victims charged with w...
Frantisek Kotzwara was an accomplished Czech composer and a talented performer of the violin, double bass, piano, cello, flute and other str...
The launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957 sent the Americans into panic. Lawmakers and educators became worried that the United Stat...
When the Romans were not busy moving earth to build colossal amphitheaters and aqueducts, they were busy moving obelisks. The city of Rome h...
There is much more to taxidermy then stuffing straw into the hide of a dead animal and sewing it up. It requires the taxidermist to possess ...
When Spanish explorer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (1744-1794) was exploring the Salish Sea and its coasts in 1791, he was astonishe...
Legends of giants permeate folklore of cultures around the world. The ancient Greeks had Gigantes who were born of Gaia (Earth) when blood f...
The small village of Turville in Buckinghamshire, about 7 miles north of Henley-on-Thames and 35 miles west of London, is a favorite destina...
Last year around April, residents in the state of Punjab in northern India were astonished to see the Himalayas from the rooftop of their h...
William Huskisson was a British statesman, financier, and Member of Parliament. A leading advocate of free trade, Huskisson had been a highl...
Every good comic book fan will have read some of the adventures of Corto Maltés and if so, will remember that one of the characters that the...
Many sports pushes the human body to the limit, and this exertion can prove fatal for some. Frank Hayes was one such casualty, and while the...
What is a soul? Can it be touched? Does it have mass? These questions tormented Duncan MacDougall, a physician from Haverhill, Massachusetts...
At the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, in the London Borough of Camden, where now stands the Dominion Theatre, there stood...
The Belyana were some of the largest wooden ships ever built. Yet, they were only meant for a single journey. They were built to transport...
The iconic Wellington Cable Car between Lambton Quay and Kelburn is one of Wellington’s most beloved landmarks, but it is not the only funic...
Married couples who can prove their undying love for each other can take home half a pig in a tradition that dates back to at least the 12th...
In August 1960, two dogs named Belka and Strelka completed went to space aboard a Soviet spacecraft, stayed for a full day orbiting, and ret...
