Month: August 2015

As a New York tabloid photographer from the 1930s to the 1950s, Arthur Fellig liked to call himself "Weegee the ...

Today, Eric Liddell is only remembered for winning a gold medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics in the men's 400-meter ...

After the death of her son Willie, Mary Todd Lincoln turned to spiritualism, hoping to speak with her deceased child. ...

To believers in the Bible's New Testament, the Shroud of Turin is the burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth, showing ...

We'll get this out of the way first: The 27 Club is a myth. Even though you can undoubtedly name ...

With the continued decline of the worldwide population of pollinators, farmers have been looking to alternative methods, specifically, colonies of ...

After breaking up with partner Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin decided to go into the restaurant business. The result was Dino’s, ...

Eugenia Kelly was a 19-year-old socialite in 1915 ... and she'd fallen head over heels for Al Davis. Davis was ...

The world denounced the horrible cruelty delivered on countless people by Nazi scientists, but there was one scientist practicing in ...

There are few cryptids that have as complete a life cycle and a history as the wild haggis of Scotland. ...

James McAuley and Harold Stewart were determined to expose modernist poetry for the garbage it was. They wrote their own ...

His name was Edsel Ford Fong, and he was known as San Francisco’s worst waiter. The man shouted at hungry ...

Vitamins are everywhere, and the whole vitamin craze got started in the 1940s. During World War II, the US government ...

In 1938, an enterprising businessman named Tony Cornero opened a floating casino off the coast of California. Known as the ...

While what's funny and what's not is largely a matter of personal taste, psychologists have found that there's something of ...

For many of us, the coolest thing we could possibly do would be discover a new species. The idea that ...

Before he was captured while leading his father's army home from battle, 26-year-old Abdul-Rahman Ibrahim ibn Sori was a married ...

In 1938, 19-year-old George Weidenfeld boarded the train from his hometown of Vienna for the last time. A Jewish teenager, ...

Although their purpose has never been confirmed, unlicensed "numbers stations" have been broadcasting on shortwave AM radio since at least ...

During the 30 years that the Berlin Wall effectively imprisoned East Germans, only about 300 people managed to escape through ...

In 1956, college student Barry Larkin made a fake torch (out of a chair leg and some burning underwear) and ...