17# Christmas Around the World: Czech traditions and Superstitions.
Christmas is coming, and today is already December 17th! We are very happy because our advent calendar is truly appreciated by readers from all over the world, and every day […]
Discover a gigantic unexplored cave in Canada.
A huge cave has been discovered hidden in the remote Canadian nature, and despite its overwhelming scale, researchers suggest it may never have been seen by human eyes before! We […]
16# Rare Vintage Photos of Christmas From the Victorian Era
It’s hard to imagine now, but at the beginning of the 19th century Christmas was hardly celebrated. However by the end of the century it had become the biggest annual […]
The Dramatic Enigma of the Sodder family: what happened to the 5 children?
George, immigrated to America from Sardinia, where met his wife, Jennie, was also from Italy, so getting married, settling in West Virginia, and having 10 children. It seems that George […]
25 old photographs of the Cowboys’ Saloons between the Old West and Alaska.
If we think of the old west, we think of a land that the European settlers, coming from Europe or from the already colonized east of the United States, stole […]
The “Pig” on the Lion of Lucerne: the invisible joke of an Unpaid Sculptor.
The “Lion of Lucerne” is one of the most famous tourist attractions of the Swiss city: a mortally wounded lion, carved in the rock, in a large former sandstone quarry, […]
2# Thomas Nast: the cartoonist who invented the Modern Icon of Santa Claus.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Santa Claus was still a character to be defined. What could he wear? In magazines people did not know how to draw him, […]
Santa Cruz del Islote: the Island of the Caribbean with 105,000 inhabitants per Km²
Santa Cruz del Islote is a tiny coral island, one of the smallest in the San Bernardo archipelago, and it is located across from the Gulf of Morrosquillo in the […]
1# Charles Dickens Wrote A Christmas Carol inspired by the London Children Poverty.
Published 175 years ago this month, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was an instant bestseller, followed by countless print, stage and screen productions. Victorians called it “a new gospel,” and […]
Nagoro: the Japanese Scarecrow Village.
In this small village, the children still sit in the classroom behind their desks, staring at the teacher, while on the road a group of elderly people wait for the […]
The strange story of the friendship between Hitler and a Jewish little girl.
We all know that Adolf Hitler was responsible for sending six million Jews to their deaths. Her name was Rosa Bernile Nienau and she was a little girl of Jewish […]
The illustrated guide of the ’30s that explained how not to die electrocuted.
Some of the pictures from the German book Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern illustrate totally plausible ways one might die of electrocution, for instance touching a lamp while in the bathtub […]
The murder of Julia Thomas: the dismembered and boiled widow who shocked Victorian London.
The murder of Julia Martha Thomas, know as the “Barnes Mystery” or the “Richmond Murder” by the press, was one of the most notorious crimes in late 19th-century Britain. Julia […]
“Just Do It”: the Nike Slogan inspired by the last words of a condemned to death.
We all know that Nike sportswear company is among the most popular in the world. It became famous during the ’80s and exploded in popularity in the 90s (often called […]
Time me, gentlemen! Robert Liston: the legendary Scottish Surgeon nicknamed “The Fastest Knife in the West End”.
Robert Liston was born on 28 October 1794 in Ecclesmachan, Scotland, and his father was the Reverend Henry Liston, the village minister and a pipe organ inventor. His name was […]
Shirokorechenskoe: the Incredible Cemetery of the Russian Gangsters.
Shirokorechenskoe Cemetery, located on the southwestern outskirts of Yekaterinburg, Russia, is the last abode of many famous local people, including artists, scientists and heroes from the World War II, often […]
Jack O’Lantern: the Halloween Legend!
The Irish brought the tradition of carving pumpkins into Jack O’Lantern to America. But, the original Jack O’Lantern was not a pumpkin, because they did not exist in Ireland. Ancient […]
