These photos from Pilgrim State Hospital in the late 1930s blended clear-eyed reporting with an almost palpable compassion. The black...
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At the University of Copenhagen in Denmark there is a unique collection of Ancient Egyptian papyrus manuscripts. A large part...
Longyearbyen might just be one of the strangest and particular towns there is to visit in our planet. But that’s...
Have you heard of the unlucky nature of the number 13? Especially when it falls on a Friday, and this...
All over the world radio and television speak ablut Genoa where yesterday, August 14, 2018, collapsed for a structural failure...
A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still standing! Over 50...
The story of this Old Mining Town: From the A Bomb to abandonment – the whole town was torn apart...
In an isolated field near a dilapidated barn stands this chilling portrayal of the situation of the Nuba peoples of...
Hawaii’s ongoing eruption created new land, but only for a few days... Last week, a small new island was born....
The Spanish Fortress of L'Aquila know as "il Castello" by the Aquilans, is one of the most impressive Renaissance castle...
Here we are: Compared to more intimidating Icelandic specialties, for example sour rams’ testicles or fermented shark, the three-meat Icelandic...
In the middle ages, creating a book wasn’t easy, and could take years: a scribe would bend over his copy...
For many centuries the world-famous Tower of London, built in 1078 on the north bank of the Thames, is guarded...
Kostel svatého Jiří (St. George’s Church) in Luková, Czech Republic, has been neglected for more than 40 years. Believing it...
The start of the great Danube, which flows over 2,700 kilometers, through 10 countries, before to flows into the Black...
It was the 90s, the years in which the waterparks were all the rage. This was built in record time...
Here we are: If they are speaking about Rocky Mountain oysters, Cowboy caviar, or Prairie oysters, they not speak about...
King Frederick William I of Prussia, also know as “The Soldier King”, was undoubtedly a leader, skilled to running his...
Here we are: It’s unusual that someone speak about an ice cream parlor into the Netherlands’ national news, but that’s...
“Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whack When she saw what she had done She gave...
Lost on the edge of Cape Denison in Antarctica, there is a small group of huts that were built by...
A story with a happy ending that of these incredible tenacious 14th-century towers survived of a demolition and now a...
Here we are: We are in Finland, where black licorice is intensified with a hit of salty, stinging ammonium chloride,...
Following the request attached to the will, the body of the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham was embalmed and preserved after...
Here we are: Today the vending machines are increasingly common all over the world. But just imagine a 24-hour vending...
Did you read our story? Do you remember? In Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1324 Petronilla de Meath is burned at the...
Since three years, but certainly since many and many more, on the trunk road Adriatica SS16, between the italian sea...
Here we are: The Michelin Red Guide is the sacred text of cooking enthusiasts, and the nightmare of many chefs,...
Nearly nothing is known about Petronilla de Meath, except that she was the first woman to be burned at the...
It was 11th June 1964, and The Civil Rights Act, which guarantee equality among all men in the United States,...
