Chez Armageddon: The 1970s Cold War Bunker Deep Below Las VegasThe 15,200-square-foot basement on Spencer Street, Las Vegas features: two-bedrooms, three-bathrooms, a four-hole putting green, matching...
‘She’s A Rainbow’: The Story Behind The Rolling Stones’ ClassicThe Rolling Stones’ “She’s a Rainbow” is regarded nowadays as a psychedelic classic. But the group’s collective mood in 1967 can be summe...
The Rajah from Tipperary (the tale of how an Irish farmer ended up ruling his own kingdom in India)There have been many great 'adventurers'. People who have through force of will or luck or the ability to bullshit really REALLY well, ha...
Possessed: Voodoo’s Origins and Influence from the Blues to BritneyVodou (the proper Kreyol/Creole spelling of Voodoo) is a neo-African religion that evolved in the New World from the 6000-year-old West A...
Remembering When Runners Drank Champagne as an Energy DrinkAt the 1908 London Summer Olympics, marathon runners hit the bottle mid-race. On July 24th 1908, The London Olympic Marathon in the Summe...
Native Americans Left a Code For Humans To Live ByCertain words of wisdom are followed by every person - regardless of their ethnicity, religion, tribe or culture. These words come from t...
The Roentgens' Berlin Secretary CabinetDiscover the hidden features and intricate interior of this cabinet. One of the finest achievements of European furniture making, this ca...
1914-1918: Black British WW1 ForcesDespite the protests of Lord Kitchener who believed black men should not be allowed to serve, many black men volunteered for and were rec...
Henri Charrière, Imprisoned On The Inescapable Devil’s Island — Then He Escaped and wrote PapillonHow Henri Charrière escaped from one of history's most infamous prisons and then won his freedom from the government that he claimed had w...
Five Female Assassins And Their Deadly TalesWhether it's Jodie Comer in Killing Eve, Uma Thurman in Kill Bill or Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde the world are always more than a li...
When Aldous Huxley Had The 'Most Beautiful Death'Brave New World novelist Aldous Huxley was diagnosed with cancer in 1960, at which point his health slowly began to deteriorate. On his d...
What Makes Edgar Allan Poe So Great? An Animated Video ExplainsHis gloomy, haunted visage adorns the covers of collected works, publications of whose like he would never see in his lifetime. Edgar All...
Watch an Art Conservator Bring Classic Paintings Back to Life in Intriguingly Narrated VideosEven in our age of unprecedentedly abundant images, delivered to us at all times by print, film, television, and especially the ever-mult...
Children watched the story of “Saint George and the Dragon”Forget the fabled rudeness of the Parisians. Forget the crowds of tourists who flock to the City of Light in the summer, making the city’...
Nicholas Winton, the ‘British Schindler’ who saved 669 children from the NazisOne of the most popular television programmes of the 1980s was BBC magazine show That’s Life. It regularly pulled in more than 20 million...
‘Unbought And Unbossed’: The Trailblazing Presidential Campaign Of Shirley ChisholmIn 1968, Shirley Chisholm made history when she became the first African American woman elected to U.S. Congress. A few years later, she ...
The Dad That Turns His 4-Year-Old Son’s Adventures Into Action FilmsWhen we were kids, it was easy to imagine that the ground was lava, or that we were superheroes or ship captains. But when we grow up, ou...
Zitkala-Sa, The American Sioux Activist Zitkala-Sa was born on February 22, 1876 on the Yankton Indian Reservation. She spent her early childhood on the reservation with her mot...
The Story of Ignaz Semmelweis, The Physician and Scientist That Was Ridiculed For Washing His Hands.Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian obstetrician who disproved the belief that post-operations deaths were caused by ‘poison air’ in a hospi...
Last Survivor of Transatlantic Slave Trade – The Life of Matilda McCrearThe life of Matilda McCrear has been unearthed from a dark period of history. Dr. Hannah Durkin of Newcastle University has been research...
Carl Emil Pettersson – the Swedish sailor who became king of Tabar Island in Papua New GuineaAt the beginning of the 20th century, newspapers were filled with stories about the Swedish man who became the king of Tabar Island. Each...
The strained making of 'Apocalypse Now'If things had worked out differently, Apocalypse Now would have been directed by George Lucas in 1970, guerrilla-style in Vietnam itself,...
Ole Kirk Christiansen and the birth of the LEGO BUILDING BRICKThe LEGO Group began in the workshop of Danish carpenter, Ole Kirk Christiansen. Ole opened the shop with his 12-year-old son, Godtfred, ...
Nirvana: Unplugged. What Could've Been?The final months of Kurt Cobain's life were chaotic to say the least, but in the midst of it all, the singer and his band Nirvana deliver...