2 min read History #February 29, 1504: The crafty Christopher Columbus’ leap year trick 6 years ago Leo S
3 min read History #February 28, 1874: the curious case of the “baronet” from Wagga Wagga 6 years ago Nathan
2 min read History #February 24, 1825: Thomas Bowdler, the man who Re-wrote the “Offensive” Shakespeare 6 years ago Robin
3 min read History #February 18, 1966: the casket that carried assassinated President John F. Kennedy buried at sea. 6 years ago Leo S
4 min read History Don’t touch the Royals: the absurd death of the Queen of Siam in the 19th Century 6 years ago Adam
3 min read History Ramesses II: the first (and probably the last) mummy to receive a passport! 6 years ago Adam
2 min read History January 1985-2020: the anniversary of the greatest snowfall of the (last) century. 6 years ago Anya
4 min read History The Wonders of New York: a Midcentury Map packed with weird local stories 6 years ago Leo S
4 min read History The true story of Trim, the adventurous cat belonging to navigator Matthew Flinders 6 years ago Nathan
5 min read History Vyborg: Once Finland’s 2nd most influential city, now only a small provincial town somewhere in Russia 6 years ago Adam
3 min read History The sunken city of Pavlopetri: the oldest submerged city in the Mediterranean 6 years ago Pavel
2 min read History 12 rare Color Photographs show the First Nazi Concentration Camps in 1933 6 years ago Adam
4 min read History Nellie Bly: the Journalist who let herself be interned in Asylum to save the patients 7 years ago Pavel
4 min read History Prague: the magnificent European capital cobbled with Jewish gravestones 7 years ago Adam
3 min read History The macabre egyptian “Voodoo” Doll, dated back about 3rd-4th Century AD 7 years ago Adam
4 min read History Point Nemo: the most remote place on Earth, and Space Vehicles cemetery 7 years ago Adam
2 min read History It’s Great To Be Alive! An unintentionally funny safety booklet from the 1950s 7 years ago Nathan
10 min read History Music The true, complete, unaltered History of 1969’s Woodstock Music Festival – 50 years later 7 years ago Ivan
5 min read History Access forbidden for a century – the French “Red Zone”: a no-go area since WWI 7 years ago Adam
3 min read History Shoes on the Danube Promenade: the Holocaust Memorial of the Jews of Budapest 7 years ago Pavel
6 min read History “Sokushinbutsu”: the self-mummification ritual and the myth of non-death 7 years ago Pavel
3 min read History Tacoma Narrows Bridge: the most popular non-fatal engineering disaster in U.S. history~ 7 years ago Leo S
5 min read History George Parrot: the bandit who was transformed into a pair of shoes 7 years ago Adam