The Metropolitan Museum of Art contains many marvels of history and art. The Adeline Harris Sears Tumbling Block with Signatures quilt...

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If you’ve collected pebbles, you’d certainly recall getting fascinated by their different shapes, sizes, and colours. However, your...

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From the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, of course: There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most...

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They had already established a blueprint. Now, all Metallica needed to do was create the next-level songs for their epochal third album,...

When British writer William Crackanthorpe visited the Mediterranean island of Elba in 1814, he was wildly curious about its most famous...

“Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go,” 21-year-old Sophie Scholl lamented, before she was guillotined by the Nazis. “But what does...

James Francis Hurley, known as Frank, was born in the Glebe district of Sydney, Australia in October 1885. His father Edward was a...

All year, the ship had been trapped, the ice pushing and pinching the hull, the wood howling in protest. Finally, on October 27, 1915, a...

Even in his time, William Hogarth was much loved for his satirical, ‘conversation’ paintings. He was a man with strong social views and...

It's been well documented that AC/DC are the greatest band in the history of the galaxy, I've seen them a fair few times live and I can...

In 1820, a whale rammed into an American whale-hunting ship in the South Pacific. It was the first time in American history that a...

@burpzine is an Instagram series created by pastry chef Erik Vernieuwe in his spare time. The series is exactly what you think it is –...

In 2007 John Maloof paid $400 for a box in a blind auction in Chicago. An estate agent and flea market frequenter, Maloof was hoping to...

It’s a good bet your first box of crayons or watercolors was a simple affair of six or so colours… just like the palette belonging to...

Everyone knows DHL, a lot of us will have used them from time to time. The business was set up in 1969 by three guys called Adrian...

In 1924, a group of ten children and hundreds of spectators gathered for a mass baptism. This was no mere religious rite. As the children...

Born in 1879 in Wilmington, Ohio, Carl (originally Karl) Everton Moon loved reading stories about Native Americans as a boy. He followed...

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The name of Newgate is notorious in the annals of London’s history. Developing out of a collection of cells in the old City Walls to the...