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To hear Charlie Duke tell it, his life's most important moment did not come 50 years ago, when he became the 10th and youngest of 12...

The gradual process of decline that brought the Roman Empire to an end is one of the all-time favourite history topics. That a nation so...

The mannequins, following the show, Dior Show at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1954. Inge Morath may have frequently photographed...

Tucked away somewhere, maybe in a pocket notepad, scribbled on some paper in your wallet or buried in an obscure app you rarely use, is a...

Few painters have created as rich a world as Hieronymus Bosch did in The Garden of Earthly Delights. The late 15th- or early 16th-century...

When 1984 rolled around, it was less Orwellian than some had predicted. Far from being a time of media censorship and cultural...

Sometimes a gorgeous surreal idea is born, and this Instagram account is one of them.

Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov merges figures from classical oil paintings with photographic scenes of modern Naples.

The story of how Van Morrison fled record-industry thugs, hid out in Boston, and wrote one of rock’s greatest albums. One day in 1968,...

Canadian illustrator John Atkinson reveals the anatomy of different styles of songs.

If you follow the ongoing beef many popular scientists have with philosophy, you’d be forgiven for thinking the two disciplines have...

In 1887, intrepid reporter Nellie Bly pretended she was 'crazy' and got herself committed, all to help improve conditions in a New York...

Surely most ardent readers of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road have tried to map Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty's American journey....

In 1900, German chocolate company Hildebrands produced a series of postcards imagining the wonders of life in the year 2000. The...

On 25 June 1968 iconic comedian Tony Hancock was found dead in a flat in Sydney Australia after taking an overdose of sleeping pills....

The original article appears here in Bigfott.com It's no great secret how Fred Astaire was able to literally “dance around the room” in...

June 21, 1675 — The foundation stone for St. Paul’s, one of the most famous cathedrals in the world, was laid on this day as work began...

Many will already be familiar with the story of the scumbag fascist leader Oswald Mosley, he rose to fame in the 1920s while serving as...

July 2, 1961 — Ernest Hemingway, the Nobel Prize-winning author, adventurer, war correspondent, bullfighter, drinker and all-round macho...

July 1, 1916 — The First World War Battle of the Somme began on this day – one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history and the worst...

In many a musical situation, one can communicate an entire playing style in a name. When it comes to the bass—in pop music, at least—one...

Alfred Buckham's first ambition was to be a painter, but after seeing Turner's pictures in the National Gallery, he returned home and...

The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819), written by “a gentleman who has made the...

In Look Magazine issue July 4, 1939 you can read a story by William P. Hitler. It’s called “Why I Hate My Uncle”. William Patrick “Willy”...