The Corpse That Hung By An English Road For 36 Years
Thieves and highwaymen were rampant in 18th-century England, and when they were caught they often faced the hangman's noose. That ...
Read moreThieves and highwaymen were rampant in 18th-century England, and when they were caught they often faced the hangman's noose. That ...
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Read moreMadame Restell was a notorious 19th-century purveyor of birth control powders and pills and, when those didn't work, of abortions. ...
Read moreDante may well be the greatest poet in history. As the author of the Divine Comedy, he inspired everyone from ...
Read moreYou’ve probably don’t know Henry Heimlich, but you definitely know the life-saving maneuver that bears his name. Without a doubt, ...
Read moreKarl May was the J.K. Rowling of his era. This 19th-century author penned over 80 novels, many of them Westerns, ...
Read moreCarbon has a lot of different crystal structures. Two of them---diamonds and graphite---are always switching personalities, Jekyll & Hyde--style.
Read moreA.C. Gilbert was the founder of one of the largest toy companies in the world---even if you don't know his ...
Read moreThere are quite a number of odd and bizarre events you might encounter when you visit Thailand. You could opt ...
Read morePeople conning each other is as old as history. While we in the modern age are taken in by sophisticated ...
Read moreWhen most people think of performance artists, they usually imagine weirdos who enjoy grossing out their audience. That describes Rick ...
Read moreLong before jingles on TV commercials became mainstream, these short, memorable tunes made their debut on radio stations. Of course, ...
Read moreIn today's universities, computer science course work is statistically dominated by men. However, the study of computing and automated arithmetic ...
Read moreOn September 11, 1973, residents of Santiago, Chile awoke to chaos. Fighter jets were bombing the president’s palace, tanks had ...
Read moreThe late 1800s were a time of industrial innovation, so we can almost understand why investors would be eager to ...
Read moreNelson Mandela, world renowned for his imprisonment in South Africa as a political prisoner for 27 years and his ascendancy ...
Read moreOf all the wild schemes concocted by the CIA during the Cold War, Project AZORIAN might be the wildest. After ...
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